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| Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions |
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| From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life. |
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| Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty |
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| Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates. |
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| Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a mob |
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| Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life |
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| Go into the street and give one man a lecture on morality and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most. |
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| God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I? |
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| Golf: A game in which you claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of youth |
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| Governors being accustomed to hear of more crimes than they can punish, and more wrongs than they can redress, set themselves at ease by indiscriminate negligence, and presently forget the request when they lose sight of the petitioner |
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| Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people |
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| Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts ready to his hand; so there is no exercise of invention. Imagination is not required in any degree; only about as much as is used in the lowest kinds of poetry. Some penetration, accuracy, and coloring, will fit a man for the task, if he can give the application which is necessary. |
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| Greek, Sir, . . . is like lace; every man gets as much of it as he can. |
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| Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great |
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| Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling. |
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| He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind. |
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| He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty |
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| He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others |
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