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| All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience. |
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| Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation. |
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| Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. |
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| Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time. |
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| Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it. |
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| Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent. |
| Generosity; Kindness |
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| Be he a king or a peasant, he is happiest who finds peace at home. |
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| Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever. |
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| Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself. |
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| Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language |
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| Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his own image |
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| Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image |
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| Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing. |
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| Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it is sure to repent every ill-judged outlay. |
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| By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect |
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