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Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.
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History makes us some amends for the shortness of life.
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Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue...
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He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more...
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The great tragedy of science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an...
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The spirit of man communes with Heaven the omnipotence of Heaven resides in man....
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If you don’t know what to do with many of the papers piled on...
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If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at...
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Men are equal it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.