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Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
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People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
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People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and servants of business.
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People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
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Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain that the virtuous.
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
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Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
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