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• He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
• Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
• To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.
• Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
• To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not…
• In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around…
• The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of…
• To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger…
• The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.
• Happiness is no laughing matter.
• It is an awful, an appalling thought, that we may be, this moment and every moment, in the presence of malignant spirits.
• Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there are boundless stores of moral and historic…

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