• Feelings

  A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.

  3.6 · 43 votes · 22 reads

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• Feelings

  A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

  3.6 · 50 votes · 66 reads

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• Government and Politics

  A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

  3.0 · 51 votes · 179 reads

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• Virtues

  A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

  3.6 · 6 votes · 87 reads

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• Virtues

  A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

  3.1 · 62 votes · 57 reads

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• Society

  A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

  4.9 · 55 votes · 160 reads

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• Feelings

  A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

  4.8 · 5 votes · 49 reads

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• Various

  A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on

  3.5 · 44 votes · 151 reads

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• Feelings

  A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.

  3.7 · 19 votes · 162 reads

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• Defects

  A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

  4.3 · 40 votes · 104 reads

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• Virtues

  A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

  3.5 · 22 votes · 113 reads

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• Nature

  A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

  3.0 · 11 votes · 161 reads

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• Art and Culture

  A man's library is a sort of harem.

  3.8 · 44 votes · 136 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  A man's what he thinks about all day long

  3.5 · 53 votes · 160 reads

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• Society

  A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

  4.5 · 15 votes · 48 reads

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• Virtues

  A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

  4.9 · 17 votes · 89 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

  4.2 · 60 votes · 117 reads

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• Society

  A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

  4.8 · 59 votes · 32 reads

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• Feelings

  A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

  3.7 · 56 votes · 44 reads

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• Virtues

  Accept your genius and say what you think.

  4.0 · 23 votes · 18 reads

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• Nature

  Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

  3.9 · 5 votes · 118 reads

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• Virtues

  Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

  4.2 · 34 votes · 174 reads

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• Society

  All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.

  3.8 · 33 votes · 129 reads

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• Feelings

  All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

  4.2 · 43 votes · 69 reads

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• Feelings

  All mankind loves a lover.

  4.8 · 38 votes · 155 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  All necessary truth is its own evidence.

  4.2 · 11 votes · 74 reads

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• Time

  All promise outruns performance.

  4.3 · 40 votes · 149 reads

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• Feelings

  All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

  4.5 · 40 votes · 161 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  All the great ages have been ages of belief.

  3.5 · 55 votes · 192 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  All the great speakers were bad speaker at first.

  4.7 · 29 votes · 105 reads

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• Feelings

  Always do what you are afraid to do.

  3.4 · 43 votes · 167 reads

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• Government and Politics

  An empire is an immense egotism.

  4.3 · 11 votes · 98 reads

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• Society

  As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter; and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits, whi

  3.9 · 64 votes · 163 reads

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• Virtues

  As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

  4.8 · 20 votes · 1 reads

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• Feelings

  As soon as there is life there is danger.

  4.8 · 48 votes · 75 reads

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• Various

  As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

  4.4 · 22 votes · 86 reads

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• Defects

  At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

  3.1 · 7 votes · 171 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

  3.8 · 24 votes · 130 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and

  5.0 · 42 votes · 12 reads

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• Time

  Be an opener of doors.

  4.2 · 25 votes · 80 reads

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