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Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
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We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.
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Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained…
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Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not…
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Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower…
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There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
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Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.
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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.
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Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all…
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We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them…
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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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We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
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Fain would I kiss my Julia's dainty leg, Which is as white and hairless as an egg.
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What we mean by sentimentalism is that state in which a man speaks deep and true sentiments not because he feels them…
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Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.
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In my walks, I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods if I am thinking of…
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A boy is a long time before he knows his alphabet, longer before he has learned to spell, and perhaps several years…
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When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community.…
— Thomas Jefferson
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