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| Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confessor of character. | | Wisdom and Ignorance | | |
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| People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains. | | Happiness and Misery | | |
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| Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem. | | Uncategorized | | |
