By nature man hates change seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
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Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments, Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know thyself till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.
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Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ.
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A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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