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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
[ Applause ]
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Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
[ Greed ]
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Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
[ Bigotry ]
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Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.
[ Morality ]
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness or oppose with firmness.
[ Decisions ]
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Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
[ Charity ]
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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
[ Doubt ]
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Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never.
[ Love ]
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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
[ Friends and Friendship ]
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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
[ Negotiation ]
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Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them.
[ Opportunity ]
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He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
[ Belief ]
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Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
[ Honor ]
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It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
[ Wealth ]
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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
[ Argument ]
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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
[ Law and Lawyers ]
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Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
[ Humor ]
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Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
[ Argument ]
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Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
[ Health ]
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Mystery is not profoundness.
[ Mystery ]
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
[ Books - Reading ]
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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
[ Power ]
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
[ Gossip ]
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Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength
[ Patience ]
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Pity is a thing often vowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.
[ Pity ]
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Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.
[ Conversation ]
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Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.
[ Soul ]
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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
[ Silence ]
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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
[ Anger ]
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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
[ Truth ]
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There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.
[ Fraud ]
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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
[ Adversity ]
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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
[ Prudence ]
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Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
[ Conflict ]
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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
[ Time and Time Management ]
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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
[ Knowledge ]
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To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
[ Past ]
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
[ Ability ]
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True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
[ Friends and Friendship ]
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
[ Freedom ]
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
[ Advice ]
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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
[ Fear ]
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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
[ Knowledge ]
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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.
[ Success ]
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Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.
[ Improvement ]
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