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| Compound for sins they are inclined to, by damning those they have no mind to | | Uncategorized | |
| Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. | | Conscience | |
| Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day. | | Future; Time | |
| Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world. | | Uncategorized | |
| Dullness is so much stronger than genius because there is so much more of it, and it is better organized and more naturally cohesive inter se. So the arctic volcano can do nothing against arctic ice. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tries to conceal himself the more clearly will his character appear in spite of him. | | Literature; Work | |
| Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself | | Literature | |
| Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it - torn up to irrecoverable tatters. | | Uncategorized | |
| Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it. | | Age | |
| Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint. | | Evil | |
| Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself. | | Fear | |
| For 'tis in vain to think or guess, At women by appearances | | Uncategorized | |
| For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools | | Uncategorized | |
| For brevity is very good, where we are, or are not understood | | Uncategorized | |
| For daring nonsense seldom fails to hit, Like scattered shot, and pass with some for wit | | Uncategorized | |
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| For he by geometric scale / Could take the size of pots of ale. | | Uncategorized | |
| For justice, though she's painted blind, Is to the weaker side inclined | | Uncategorized | |
| For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure /tangible material prosperity in this world /is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism. | | Uncategorized | |
