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We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action...
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Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.
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When you wish to instruct, be brief that men’s minds take in quickly what...
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I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are...
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It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live...
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For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these ‘It...
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Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
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Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.
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Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.