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The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.
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The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
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The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.
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The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.
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The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.
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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
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The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
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The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not being a thief any more. Thieving is God's message to him. Let him try and be a good thief.
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The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are - 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and, 3. Hope to all.
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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
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The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
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The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
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