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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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Ends
Magnificence
Math
Mathematics
Nile
Study
Like
Begins
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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Best Friend
Friendship
Friends
Motivational
Smile
Health
Lost
Sound
True Friend
True Friendship
Like
True
Until
Seldom
Value
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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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Conquer
Grants
Negotiation
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Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.
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Comment
Misfortunes
Pity
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Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.
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Women
Ornaments
Want
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It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb.
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Book
Easy
Easy To Get
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Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.
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Education
Brain
Rooms
Teaching
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That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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Benevolence
Fine
Source
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Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good.
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Champagne
Criticism
Excellent
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It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.
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Gentleman
Knaves
Wealth
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Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.
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Wisdom
Believe
Common
Errors
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Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
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Cradle
Lying
Nurse
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The most consistent men are not more unlike to others, than they are at times to themselves.
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Men
Consistency
Consistent
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Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.
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Genius
Particular
Talent
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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
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Journey
Knowledge
Wisdom
Literature
Sharing Knowledge
Agreed
Almost All
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It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.
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Advertising
Easy
Tasks
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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Life
Improving
People
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It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.
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Wise
Money
Fool
Thinking
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The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
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Men
Fellow Man
Opinion
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Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.
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May
Modern
Poet
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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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Fear
Despise
Pretend
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He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
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Atheism
Knaves
Mean
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It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
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Grows
Ifs
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Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun, and the two are never far apart.
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Peace
Stars
Two
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The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us.
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Christian
Envy
Hate
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There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.
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Deceived
Fraud
Stupid
Stupidity
Would Be
Frauds
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There is this paradox in fear: he is most likely to inspire it in others who has none himself!
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Fear
Inspire
Paradox
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We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.
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Book
Lovers
Merit
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He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.
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Adversity
Extremes
Knows
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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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Anger
Hate
Persons
Racism
Will
Because
Them
Some
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Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.
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Firsts
Memories
Mind
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It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.
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Easy
Forgiving
Powerful
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False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities.
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Giving
Reason
Swings
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The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.
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Age
Pain
Youth
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He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness.
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There are some men who are fortune's favorites, and who, like cats, light forever on their legs.
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Men
Cat
Light
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The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.
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Genius
Highest
Reason
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The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God.
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Men
Eye
Moving
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All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.
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Inspirational
Motivational
Depressing
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Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.
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Inspirational
Religion
War
Writing
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Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
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Fickle
Honor
Opinion
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The most zealous converters are always the most rancorous when they fail of producing conversion.
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Conversion
Failing
Zealous
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If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself.
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Debt
Deeper
Quitting
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Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
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Fitness
Health
Flower
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I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.
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Enemy
Remember
Revenge
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He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.
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Exercise
Higher
Humility
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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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Clothes
Fashion
Pride
Feed
Ladies
Starve
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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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Doubt
Literature
Optimism
Enter
Pass
Temple
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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
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Anger
Hatred
Rage
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Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.
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Brave
Generosity
Order
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