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> The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation. > Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter. > Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Mine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that non-sense. > Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them. > But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. > Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage. > The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. > The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done; the greater will be his power of knowing what to do. As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. > "Frank and explicit" - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others. > The secret of success is constancy to purpose. > Where knowledge ends, religion begins. > Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. > Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth. > Great services are not cancelled by one act or by one single error. > Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief, the blunder of a life. > Ignorance never settles a question. > My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. > Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologies for truth. > Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes. > The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it. > The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end. > There are three Kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. > What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens. > When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. > How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. > To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. > Amusement to an observing mind is study. > Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful. > Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. > The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth. > Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. > Duty cannot exist without faith. > Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions. > A person's fate is their own temper. >There is no education like adversity. > Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. > A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy. > Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation. |
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