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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
[ Scholars and Scholarship ]
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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
[ Injury ]
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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
[ Confidence ]
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Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others.
[ Deception ]
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Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
[ Morality ]
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Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.
[ Slander ]
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Good temper is an estate for life.
[ Temper ]
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Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.
[ Temper ]
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Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
[ Grace ]
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Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
[ Grace ]
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Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
[ Grace ]
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Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
[ Thoughts and Thinking ]
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He talked on for ever; and you wished him to talk on for ever.
[ Eloquence ]
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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
[ Friends and Friendship ]
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I would like to spend my whole life traveling, if I could borrow another life to spend at home.
[ Travel and Tourism ]
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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.
[ Power ]
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If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.
[ Peace ]
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If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
[ Speculation ]
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
[ Faith ]
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It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
[ Dissent ]
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It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world.
[ Faults ]
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Lest he should wander irretrievably from the right path, he stands still.
[ Inertia ]
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Life is the art of being well deceived.
[ Deception ]
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Man is a make-believe animal -- he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
[ Integrity ]
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No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.
[ Perfection ]
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No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
[ Modesty ]
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
[ Opinions ]
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One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect.
[ Excellence ]
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Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
[ Favors ]
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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.
[ Death and Dying ]
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Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
[ Prejudice ]
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Reflection makes men cowards.
[ Deliberation ]
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Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
[ Sarcasm ]
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Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
[ Promises ]
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
[ Taste ]
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The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.
[ Inheritance ]
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The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
[ Persuasion ]
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The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
[ Expectation ]
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The best way to procure insults is to submit to them.
[ Insults ]
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The busier we are the more leisure we have.
[ Leisure ]
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The essence of poetry is will and passion.
[ Poetry and Poets ]
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The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
[ Mind ]
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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
[ Action ]
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The most learned are often the most narrow minded.
[ Prejudice ]
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The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.
[ self-esteem ]
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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.
[ Friends and Friendship ]
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The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
[ Vocation ]
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The public have neither shame or gratitude.
[ Gratitude ]
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The worst old age is that of the mind.
[ Age and Aging ]
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There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
[ Fame ]
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