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Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put…
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Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
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Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come…
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Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
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Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
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The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and…
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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
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A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
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Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.
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An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
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Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of…
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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
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It will be forgotten, on the one hand, that jealousy is the usual concomitant of violent love, and that the noble enthusiasm…
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The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before…
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In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.
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Thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous.
— Herman Melville
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One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly…
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A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who…
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If saying that religion should be a private matter and should not have special influence in public life is illiberal, then 74%…
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