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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Samuel Johnson

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
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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Exam Fake Invitation Truth
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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Conscience Funny Marriage Wife
What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn’t deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
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Best Deserve Ignorance Insult Motivational Punishment
Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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Evidence One Liner Power Truth
A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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Growth Man Mindset Place
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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Curiosity Generosity Greatness Mindset
A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.
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Expression Greatness Himself Hope Man Meaning World
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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Object Possible Try
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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Goodness Original Poet Writing Yourself
The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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Fashion Opinion Reason
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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Difficult Gratitude Happiness Success
It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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Better Choice Death Live Rich
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
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
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

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