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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.
Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the... →
Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.
Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.
Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.
Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.
In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in... →
Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.
Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.
An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.
Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.