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Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an inhabitual way.
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Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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I don't claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there's a basis to them, and that's why they're more popular than other TV comedies. There's a basis of truth in them, a gut feeling.
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I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
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I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
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