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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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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason…
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