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Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can...
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…it is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you...
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Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.
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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
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He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore...
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word “academic” in a pejorative sense...
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Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.
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Books have the same enemies as people fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own...
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A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of...