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In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.
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Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.
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Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity…
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We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.
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We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.
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A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once…
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Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask…
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In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.
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He might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he laid so many books upon his head…
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Ignorance gives a sort of eternity to prejudice, and perpetuity to error
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Rising health care spending occurs because it is beneficial, not a burden on the economy.
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded…
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
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Man is by nature a political animal.
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If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
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Nature does nothing in vain.
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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things…
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He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is…
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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for…
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