"There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it."
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"Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms."
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"Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent."
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"Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears"
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"That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good."
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"Worth seeing, yes; but not worth going to see."
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"A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed."
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"Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain."
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"No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true."
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"Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself"
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"The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made by short flights frequently repeated; the most lofty fabrics of science are formed by the continued accumulation of single propositions."
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"Nature never gives everything at once."
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"How small of all that human hearts endure/That part which laws or kings can cause or cure."
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"Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe."
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"He that travels in theory has no inconveniences."
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"A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything."
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"To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he whose life has passed without a contest, and who can boast neither success nor merit, can survey himself only as a useless filler of existence; ad if he is content with his own character, must owe his satisfaction to insensibility."
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"It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done."
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"Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured."
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"He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage."
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