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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

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I am not afraid of praise, for I have practiced it on myself.

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As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may…

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A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.

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In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the…

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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

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The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel.

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Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe.

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“Leaders spend time reviewing their mistakes rather than having fantasies over their achievements! They look for every way to do the undone!”

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“Leaders create influence with the clays of criticism others throw at them. They don't take offence; they take corrections.”

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Reprehension is a kind of middle thing betwixt admonition and correction: it is sharpe admonition, but a milde correction. It is rather to be…

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