"Be thine own privy counsellor."
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"There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull."
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"He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded."
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"The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman."
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"There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost."
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"Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace--but a peace I hope with honour."
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"Eloquence is the child of knowledge."
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"There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations."
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"Almost everything that is great has been done by youth."
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"I pride myself in recognizing and upholding ability in every party and wherever I meet it."
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"When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world."
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"A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law."
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"Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions."
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"Enthusiasm is the breath of genius."
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"Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything."
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"Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent."
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"The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims."
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"I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children."
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"Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man."
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"We cannot learn men from books."
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