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To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.

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Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.

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Adult males are what their moms designed them.

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Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.

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If the aristocrat is only valid in fashionable circles, and not with truckmen, he will never be a leader in fashion; and if the man of the people cannot speak on equal terms with the gentleman, so that the gentleman shall perceive that he is already really of his own order, he is not to be feared.

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There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned tomorrow.

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Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]

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Character is an invincible force, which acts by presence and without means

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Performing on a stool, we've got a sight to make you drool, seven virgins and a mule, keep it cool, keep it cool.

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Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and we do not try. We renounce all high aims.

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All things with which we deal preach to us. What is a farm but a mute gospel? The chaff and the wheat, weeds and plants, blight, rain, insects, sun,--it is a sacred emblem from the first furrow of spring to the last stack which the snow of winter overtakes in the fields.

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To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.

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Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.

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At present, man applies to nature but half his force. He works on the world with his understanding alone. He lives in it, and masters it by a penny-wisdom; and he that works most in it, is but a half-man, and whilst his arms are strong and his digestion good, his mind is imbruted, and he is a selfish savage.

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Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

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The rule for hospitality and Irish "help," is, to have the same dinner every day throughout the year. At last, Mrs. O'Shaughnessylearns to cook it to a nicety, the host learns to carve it, and the guests are well served.

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The only way to have a friend is to be one.

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When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint.

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The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism.

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History is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to be pitied, for they know not what they should do.

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