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Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep moral, grave...
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Don’t laugh at a youth for his affectations he is only trying on one...
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It was the same with those old birds in Greece and Rome as it...
Quote #7522
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that...
Quote #15458
Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder...
Quote #6966
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
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The Fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations...
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Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.
Quote #624
We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in...