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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.

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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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