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A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.

Plutarch

The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.
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Experience Knowledge Myself Strange True
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Happiness Talk Yourself
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Anger Man Power Savage
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 whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
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Deep Friendship Struggle
It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
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Advice Learning Live Man True
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
But a man cannot by writing a bill of divorce to his vice get rid of all trouble at once, and enjoy tranquillity by living apart.
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Enjoyment Man Trouble Vice Writing
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
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
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Difficult Easy
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
Even those virtues that nature had denied him were imitated by him so successfully that he won more confidence than those who actually possessed them.
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Confidence Nature Success Virtue
May I never sit where it is impossible for me to get up and offer my seat to an older man?
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Impossible Man Myself
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

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