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Greediness of getting more deprives... the enjoyment of what it had got.
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[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return…
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What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.
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...they have never affirm'd any thing, concerning the Cause, till the Trial was past: whereas, to do it before, is a most…
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Passion is the great mover and spring of the soul. When men’s passions are strongest, they may have great and noble effects;…
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Invention is an Heroic thing, and plac'd above the reach of a low, and vulgar Genius. It requires an active, a bold,…
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A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.
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All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want…
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Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our…
— Seneca the Younger
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So far are we generally from thinking what we often say of the shortness of life, that at the time when it…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return…
— Thomas Sprat
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It need hardly be said that shortness is a merit in words.
— Henry Watson Fowler
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Suppose you came across a woman lying on the street with an elephant sitting on her chest. You notice she is short…
— Sally Ride
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Concerning the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or that they do not exist, nor what sort…
— Protagoras
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A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness…
— Robert Benchley
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