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The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

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To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage.
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Alone Beyond Friendship Nature Philosophy Seek
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
The fact is that men who know nothing of decency in their own lives are only too ready to launch foul slanders against their betters and to offer them up as victims to the evil deity of popular envy.
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Evil Live Man Victim
I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than the extent of my power or possessions.
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Excellence Knowledge Material Myself Power
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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Evidence Love Trust
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks everything.
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Character Goodness Greatness Man
I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be, and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.
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Literature Myself
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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Inspirational Philosophy Wisdom
It’s a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man’s oration, it is a very easy matter, but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.
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Difficult Easy Greatness Man Place Produce
Those who receive with most pains and difficulty, remember best; every new think they learn, being, as it were, burnt and branded in on their minds.
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Difficult Learning Pain Thinking
It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.
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Art Creation Deserve
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.
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Regret Remember Talk
The future bears down upon each one of us with all the hazards of the unknown. The only way out is through.
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Determination Future Oneself
I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
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Change Deep Friendship Myself
In a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer.
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Fantasy Season Talk Time Winter Word

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