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Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

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Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

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Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

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Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

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When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

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History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

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Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

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I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

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Wonder is the basis of worship.

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Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

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Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

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Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

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A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

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No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

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Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

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