The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Samuel Johnson

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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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Choice Freedom Solitude Wasted Time Yourself
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
Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
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Consistence Power Steal Theft
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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Fools Love Wisdom
The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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Man Praise Rich Virtue Wealth Wisdom World
Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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Evidence One Liner Power Truth
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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Art Attention Memories True
No man was ever great by imitation.
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Greatness Imitation Man One Liner
Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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Advice Need Welcome
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
The future is purchased by the present.
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Deep Future One Liner Present Time
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
A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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Civilization Poor Test True
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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Goodness Greatness Himself Wait
You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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Deep Hesitation Myself Sharp Silence Weapon Word Yourself
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
How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
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Cure Endurance Heart Human King Law
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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Kindness Ourselves Power
Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.
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Commitment Existence Guilty Injury Mistake Society
Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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Happiness Nature
Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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Art Himself Person Photograph Work
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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Books Choice Friendship
People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need People
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Angel Dangerous Fear Fools Knowledge
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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Conscience Funny Marriage Wife
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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Object Possible Try

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