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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?
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True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.
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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.
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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
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''Healing,'' Papa would tell me, ''is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.''
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'A Long Way Gone' says something about human nature that we try, most of the time, to ignore.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
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A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
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A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there - even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.
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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
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A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
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