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What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

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Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

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All great peoples are conservative.

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

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Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

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A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

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To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

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All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

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Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

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History, a distillation of rumour.

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The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

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Work alone is noble.

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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

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The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

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In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

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