"The best ideas are common property."
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"Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell."
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"He that does good to another does good also to himself."
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"There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it."
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"The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise."
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"He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes."
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"Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got."
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"Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity."
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"The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag."
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"Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself."
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"Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough."
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"There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension, others imperceptible to us because such exalted majesty conceals itself in the holiest part of its sanctuary, forbidding access to any power save that of the spirit. How many heavenly bodies revolve unseen by human eye!"
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"Indolence is stagnation; employment is life."
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"He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent."
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"Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy."
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"Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed and rightly."
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"Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span."
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"A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well."
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"What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him."
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"No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated."
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