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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.

Pliny the Elder

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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Home is where the heart is.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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Not a day without a line.
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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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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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