Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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All great natures delight in stability all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.Ralph Waldo Emerson
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom
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When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.
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Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.
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We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause
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Truth is our element.
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