Death is like thunder in two particulars, we are alarmed at the sound of it, and it is formidable only from that which has prceded it.
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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
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Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
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