A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.
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The use we make of our fortune determines as to its sufficiency.- A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly.
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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