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The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.
Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not... →
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is... →
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the... →
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.
Let every man be true and every god a liar.
There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think... →
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
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