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Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our... →
How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some... →
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.
Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.
It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.
The easiest person to deceive is one's self.
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.
If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.
The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.
Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.