"It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant."
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"It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful, too? There is a mischievous excess that borders so close upon ingratitude that it is no easy matter to distinguish the one from the other; but, in regard that there is good-will in the bottom of it, however distempered; for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits."
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"To be everywhere is to be nowhere."
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"Truth never perishes."
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"Virtue is nothing else than right reason"
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"Something that can never be learnt too thoroughly can never be said too often."
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"We learn not for life but for the debating-room."
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"That which achieves its effect by accident is not art."
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"Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams."
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"There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery."
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"Only a great man, believe me, and one whose excellence rises far above human failings, will not allow anything to be stolen from his own span of time, and his life is very long precisely because he has devoted to himself entirely any time that became available. None of it lay uncultivated and idle, none was under another man's control, for guarding it most jealously, he found nothing worth exchanging for his own precious time."
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"Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come . . . . Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate."
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"Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly."
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"Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance. ?That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two suns."
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"Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by."
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"Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed."
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"He who blushes at riding in a rattletrap, will boast when he rides in style."
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"Love of action is not industry."
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"Teach the art of living well."
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"To make a commencement requires a mental effort."
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