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/ page 799 of 1205 /We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
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The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
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Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.
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God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.
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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
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The great hope of society is in individual character.
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Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
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No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.
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He that shuns trifles must shun the world.
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An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.
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For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.
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We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.
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Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.
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Pure innovation is more gross than error.
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Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.
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Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.
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I am ashamed the law is such an ass.
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