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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard…
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or…
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has…
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol…
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The good Lord send out a spirit of mortification to cure our distempers, or we are in a sad condition!
— John Owen
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When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and…
— Joseph Addison
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To the north of Armenia lies Zorzania Georgia, near the confines of which there is a fountain of oil which discharges so…
— Marco Polo
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The first Care in building of Cities, is to make them airy and well perflated; infectious Distempers must necessarily be propagated amongst…
— John Arbuthnot
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A propos of Distempers, I am going to tell you a thing that I am sure will make you wish your selfe…
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and…
— Benjamin Franklin
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When an old Woman begins to doat [sic], and grow chargeable to a Parish, she is generally turned into a Witch,and fills…
— Joseph Addison
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