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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Samuel Johnson

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
Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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Language Mindset Talk Thinking Yourself
People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need People
The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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Oneself People Talk Well
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
Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
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Himself Man Pride Vice
Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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Bright Cleaning Sorrow Soul
Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
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Courage Greatness Himself Man Preserve Security Virtue
A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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Animal Home Mathematics
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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Change Effort Happiness Himself Human Knowledge Life Nature Seek Wasted Time
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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Diligence Hope Learning
If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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Choice Freedom Solitude Wasted Time Yourself
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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Death Himself Live Man
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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Concentration Death Focus Man Mindset Wonderful
A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.
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Equality Monument Past Pride Wisdom
To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.
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Health Moral Preserve Religious Social Virtue

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