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The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in…
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The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or…
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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of…
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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
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All money is a matter of belief.
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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
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It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but…
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The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same,…
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Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an…
— Frances Perkins
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When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence.…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: "I wish I…
— Arthur Tappan Pierson
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Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a poor workman.
— John Joseph Bernet
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The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to…
— Mencius
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It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of…
— David Hume
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When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window.
— George Eliot
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