"Make the most of time, it flies away so fast; yet method will teach you to win time."
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"When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie."
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"Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites."
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"Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone."
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"The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte, Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]"
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"Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation."
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"Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other."
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"Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way."
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"The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims."
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"The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality."
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"He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered."
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"A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others."
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"My inheritance how lordly wide and fair; Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir."
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"The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency."
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"Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character."
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"So then the year is repeating its old story again. We are come once more, thank God! to its most charming chapter. The violets and the Mayflowers are as its inscriptions or vignettes. It always makes a pleasant impression on us, when we open again at these pages of the book of life."
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"We can redeem anyone who strives unceasingly."
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"The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights."
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"The universal subjugator, the commonplace."
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"A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them."
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