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To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half…
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If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've…
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Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
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Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a…
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see…
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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very…
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King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good…
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave…
— Aristotle
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
— Aristotle
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[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Poets and songwriters speak highly of spring as one of the great joys of life in the temperate zone, but in the…
— Barbara Holland
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Nevertheless, he must be cautious in believing and acting, and must not inspire fear of his own accord, and must proceed in…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Shall I compare thee to a summer day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate... When in eternal lines to time thou…
— William Shakespeare
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Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.
— Mark Twain
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One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over,…
— Louis Agassiz
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