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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured…
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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry;…
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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience;…
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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
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I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
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To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
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The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show…
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.
— William Hazlitt
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
— Francis Bacon
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
— Henry Fielding
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The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations,…
— Adam Clarke
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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
— H. L. Mencken
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It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in…
— Archibald Alexander Hodge
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Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped…
— William Godwin
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
— Francis Bacon
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Gold clingeth to the protection of the cautious owner who invests it under the advice of men wise in its handling.
— The Richest Man In Babylon
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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, but to weigh and consider . . . Histories…
— Francis Bacon Sr
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