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The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God...
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All honor’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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Any ordinary man can…surround himself with two thousand books…and thenceforward have at least one...
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Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act...
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I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success,...
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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the...
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Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of...
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Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness...
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Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of...
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Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen...