Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
QUINTILIANIt seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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