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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.



Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.



Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.



One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.



And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.



Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.



We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.



But thousands die without or this or that, die, and endow a college, or a cat: To some, indeed, Heaven grants the happier fate, Tenrich a bastard, or a son they hate.



Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.



Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed" was the ninth beatitude



Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.



Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.



A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.



Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing



How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!








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