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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Pliny the Elder

The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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Brain Future Intellect One Liner Perception Strong
Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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Eath Enemy Kind Men Mother
It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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Agree Agriculture Do Emotion Hope Inspiring Maximum Motivation Opportunity Practise
Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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Man Natural Novelty Yearn
Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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Deserve Feel Happy Name Nature Doubt Parent Suffer
As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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Chance is a second master.
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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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