“ Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. ”
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“ Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. ”
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“ No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.. ”
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“ No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. ”
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“ A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. ”
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“ It is invidious to distinguish particular men as adventurers: we are all such. ”
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“ In art there are two principal schools between which each aspirant has to choose — one distinguished by its close adherence to nature, and the other by its strenuous efforts to get above it. ”
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“ Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it. ”
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“ Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity. ”
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“ Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity. ”
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“ Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action. ”
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“ Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage. ”
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“ Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage. ”
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“ Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage. ”
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“ Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity. ”
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“ Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds. ”
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“ Better freedom with a crust, than slavery with every luxury. ”
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“ Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere. ”
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“ We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency. ”
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“ In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong. ”
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“ Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity. ”
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“ A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it. ”
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“ There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted. ”
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“ The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly. ”
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“ Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest. ”
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