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Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
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We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.
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Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained…
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Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not…
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Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower…
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There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
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Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.
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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.
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Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all…
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We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them…
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Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people…
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It is true that the grasping of truth is not possible without empirical basis. However, the deeper we penetrate and the more…
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Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it.
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Each person is an enigma. You're a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the great mystery of…
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It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal…
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A reflection of my feelings about the space program is found in a quotation from Charles A. Lindbergh's "Autobiography of Values." It…
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Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest…
— Fritjof Capra
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Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes.
— Charles Lindbergh
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