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A person's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

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To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.

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We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. Art

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The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies they are ready enough to tell them.

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Greatness is not where we stand but in what direction we are moving

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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

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The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand the vote that shakes the turrets of the land.

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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.

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Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.

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If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

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A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

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In walking, the will and the muscles are so accustomed to working together and performing their task with so little expenditure of force that the intellect is left comparatively free.

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Youth fades love droops, the leaves of friendship fall A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if it has common sense on the ground floor.

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What I call a good patient is one who, having found a good physician, sticks to him till he dies.

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I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

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The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

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