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/ page 287 of 1205 /He that never thinks can never be wise.
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Judgment is forced upon us by experience.
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Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterward propagate it.
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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
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Where there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, "I did not give it to the man, but to humanity."
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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many foulder in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.
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Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.
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The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.
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Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.
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Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
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The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.
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The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.
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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.
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There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart.
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Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.
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Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.
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Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.
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There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
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We talked of the education of children; and I asked him what he thought was best to teach them first. JOHNSON. "Sir, it is no matter what you ...
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