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 | "Vision: the art of seeing the invisible." | |
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Found in the topic Vision.
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| "If a man should register all his opinions upon love, politics,
religion, learning, etc., beginning from his youth, and so go on to old
age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at
last." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young
traveler just returned from abroad." | |
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Found in the topic Travel.
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| "The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the
happy impute all their success to prudence or merit." | |
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Found in the topic Confession.
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| "It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so
universal as death should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil
to mankind." | |
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Found in the topic Death.
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| "Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off." | |
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Found in the topic Rational.
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| "Most sorts of diversion, in men, children and other animals, are an
imitation of fighting." | |
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Found in the topic Animals.
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| "Ambition is a vice which often puts men upon doing the meanest
offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with
creeping." | |
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Found in the topic Ambition.
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| "Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the
provisions of life, and are allured by their Appetites to their
destruction." | |
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Found in the topic Sensuality.
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| "Books, the children of the brain." | |
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Found in the topic Book.
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| "Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as
in books it is generally the worst sort of reading." | |
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Found in the topic Argument.
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| "Faith, that"s as well said, as if I had said it myself." | |
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Found in the topic Quotations.
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| "No wise man ever wished to be younger." | |
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Found in the topic Wise.
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| "A fool can ask more questions than the wisest can answer." | |
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Found in the topic Question.
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| "It is is men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold
which the owner knows not." | |
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Found in the topic Man.
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| "I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not
ashamed." | |
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Found in the topic Shame.
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| "Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old." | |
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Found in the topic Age.
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| "The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our
desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes." | |
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Found in the topic Desire.
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| "Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken." | |
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Found in the topic Promise.
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| "Bachelor"s fare: Bread and cheese, and kisses." | |
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Found in the topic Bachelors.
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