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"What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to the beautiful. Instead of the city of the Violet Crown, a Lancashire village has expanded into a mighty region of factories and warehouses. Yet, rightly understood, Manchester is as great a human exploit; as Athens."
"Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit."
"He who gains time gains everything."
"All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character or illustrates an existence."
"Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor."
"You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art."
"Through persistence numerous individuals win accomplishment out of what appeared bound to be sure disappointment."
"A man's fate is his own temper."
"It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis."
"As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life."
"A book may be as great a thing as a battle."
"I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine."
"Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray."
"Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment."
"Candor is the brightest gem of criticism."
"How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and pour forth in careless and picturesque phrase all the results of his studies and observation; his knowledge of men, books, and nature. On the contrary, if a man has by any chance an original idea, he hoards it as if it were old gold; and rather avoids the subject with which he is most conversant, from fear that you may appropriate his best thoughts."
"Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it."
"There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse"
"Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination."
"I believe absence is a great element of charm."