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| There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. |
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| There is this difference between the two temporal blessings - health and money; money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied; and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflec |
| Blessings; Health; Money |
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| There is this paradox in pride it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so |
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| They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety. |
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| Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions. |
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| Through the proportion of those who think be extremely small, yet every individual flatters himself that he is one of the number |
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| Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities. |
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| Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm. |
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| To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. |
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| To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. |
| Courage; Living; Meetings |
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| To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it. |
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| To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us |
| Attitude; Men |
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| To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary. |
| Pain; Power |
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| To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another |
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| To sentence a man of true genius to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse in a mill |
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| To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author. |
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| True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. |
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| Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind |
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| Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved |
| Vice; Virtue |
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