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| 'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures. |
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| A learned person is not learned in everything; but the capable person is capable in everything, even in what he is ignorant of |
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| A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion. |
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| A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all apprentices when we come to it |
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| A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. |
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| A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can. |
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| Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face. |
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| All general judgments are loose and imperfect |
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| All the fame I look for in life is to have lived it quietly |
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| All the world knows me in my book, and may book in me. |
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| Ambition is not a vice of little people |
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| And with Epicurus, I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures |
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| Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying |
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| As plants are suffocated and drowned with too much moisture, and lamps with too much oil, so is the active part of the understanding with too much study |
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| But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature. |
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| Confidence in another man's virtue is no slight evidence of one's own |
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| Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity |
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| Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness. |
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