You never gain something but that you lose something.
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Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.Henry David Thoreau
Goodness is the only investment which never fails.
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The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.
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If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats.
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