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• Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.
• The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
• He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
• The amiable is a duty most certainly, but must not be exercised at the expense of any of the virtues. He who…
• Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities - we gain only as we give.
• Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine.
• Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; it supplies…
• The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by…
• No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.
• Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe and honestly to…
• To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
• Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is…

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