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The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

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To fill the hour and leave no crevice ... that is happiness.

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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

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Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it--else it is none.

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None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed. Ah me! no man goeth alone. All men go in flocks to this saint or t...more

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Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a h...more

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We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gate...more

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Discontent is want of self-reliance it is infirmity of will.

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Five great enemies to peace inhabit us: avarice ambition envy anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished we should infallibly enjoy per...more

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He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his fat...more

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Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting ...more

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Another point of economy is to look for seed of the same kind as you sow, and not to hope to buy one kind with an other kind. Friendship buys friendsh...more

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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.