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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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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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Courage Hope Inspirational One Liner
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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Character Curiosity Intellectual Oneself
It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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Business Happiness Himself Man
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
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
The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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Knowledge Wisdom
The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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Fashion Opinion Reason
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
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
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
Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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Language Mindset Talk Thinking Yourself
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
What is easy is seldom excellent.
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Easy Excellence One Liner
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
No man was ever great by imitation.
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Greatness Imitation Man One Liner
Truth allows no choice.
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Choice One Liner Truth
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
There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
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Father Freedom Independent Power Son Struggle
Grief is a species of idleness.
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Born Children Grief One Liner Wasted Time
Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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Aspiration Inspirational One Liner Ourselves Possible
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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Goodness Greatness Himself Wait
Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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Argument Reason Remove
Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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Make Up Tears Weapon Woman
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
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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Afford Difficult Life Pleasure
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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Exam Fake Invitation Truth
Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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Bed Coward Night Sleep Thinking

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