For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
FRANCIS BACONA prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand–and melting like a snowflake.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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Knowledge itself is power.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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