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To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.

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I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
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Business Creation Man Myself Reason
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
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Care Man Myself Necessary Weakness Worth
If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.
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Doubt Moon Sun
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
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Sadness Time
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
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Greatness Man Nature
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
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Himself Light Stars
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
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Gratitude Thankful
If a thing loves, it is infinite.
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Forever Love
The moon, like a flower in heaven’s high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.
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Flower Heaven Moon Night Silence Smile
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
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Leadership Road Wisdom
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
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Grief Joy
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
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Attraction Energy Existence Hate Human Love Necessary Progress Reason
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship’s sake.
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Enemy Friendship Heart Pain
The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow
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Animal Learning Lost Time
Knowledge is Life with wings
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Knowledge Life Wings
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend
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Deep Enemy Friendship Person Yourself
Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
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Capacity Rich Ugly
Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth.
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Believe Possible Truth
We are here to learn to endure the beams of love.
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Endurance Learning Love
Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.
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Avoid Man Mindset Yourself
Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
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Life Responsibility
Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
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Forget Human Man
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
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Imagination Philosophy World
A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.
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Goodness Religion Talk
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars; General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer: For Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
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Art Existence Goodness Himself Science
Exuberance is beauty.
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Beautiful One Liner
And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification
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Genius Gratitude Honesty Present

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