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Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.
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Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
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He hath consumed a whole night in lying looking to his great toe, about which he hath seen Tartars and Turks, Romans and Carthaginians, fight in his imagination.
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He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
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He is great who confers the most benefits.
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He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.
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He is not great who is not greatly good.
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He may justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.
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He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.
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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
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He travels best that knows when to return. Middleton For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
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He was as great as a man can be without morality.
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He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
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