The true, strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
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The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without considerationSamuel Johnson
It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
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The traveler that resolutely follows a rough and winding path will sooner reach the end of his journey than he that is always changing his direction, and wastes the hour of daylight in looking for smoother ground and shorter passages.
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Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.
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Seldom any splendid story is wholly true.
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If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.
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