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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Samuel Johnson

A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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Animal Home Mathematics
The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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Associate Greatness Local Man Position
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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Better Goodness Man Talk Wife
Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
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Crime Evil Himself Ignorance Learning Proper
If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.
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Care Hands Mad Man Ourselves Pity Room
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
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Courage Greatness Opportunity Virtue
All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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Advantage Better Country Enjoyment Himself Improvement Learning Travel Visit Worst
Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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Evidence One Liner Power Truth
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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Law Nature Power Wisdom Woman
No man was ever great by imitation.
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Greatness Imitation Man One Liner
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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Better Cheating Happiness Suffering Trust Wrong
There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.
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Education Knowledge Wisdom
A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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Growth Man Mindset Place
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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Books Choice Friendship
If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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Choice Freedom Solitude Wasted Time Yourself
The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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Knowledge Wisdom
Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
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Choice Liberty Nation Starve Work
Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
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Retirement Sorry Talent Thinking World Yourself
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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Fools Love Wisdom
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Desire Man Myself Reading Writing
When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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Break Hope Kindness Return Rule Violence
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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Exam Fake Invitation Truth
The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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Oneself People Talk Well
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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Goodness Measurement Treat True
The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.
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Enjoyment Happiness Travel Woman
The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
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Evil Man Misery Repeat
From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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End God Greatness Guide Motivational Original Spring

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