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• Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
• We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.
• Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained…
• Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not…
• Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower…
• There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
• Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.
• To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
• Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.
• Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all…
• We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them…
• Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people…

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