A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.
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A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
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A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
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Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
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Art and science have their meeting point in method.
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Beneath the rule of men entirely great,The pen is mightier than the sword.
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Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
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Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.
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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
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How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.
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If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.
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If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
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In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.
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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
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Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.
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No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
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O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.
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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
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Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.
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Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
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The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
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The easiest person to deceive is one's self.
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The pen is mightier than the sword.
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The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.
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There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.
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There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.
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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.
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What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
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Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.
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When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
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