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Life protracted is...

Life protracted is...

Life protracted is protracted woe.

Source: The Vanity of Human Wishes.
-- Samuel...

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No mind is...

No mind is...

No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our...

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Perhaps man is...

Perhaps man is...

Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.

Source: In...

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Self confidence is...

Self confidence is...

Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Source: In Webster's...

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Slander is the...

Slander is the...

Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.

Source:...

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Seeing Scotland, Madam,...

Seeing Scotland, Madam,...

Seeing Scotland, Madam, is only seeing a worse England.

Source: Life of Johnson,...

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The habit of...

The habit of...

The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a...

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Truth, Sir, is...

Truth, Sir, is...

Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the...

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To keep your...

To keep your...

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

Source:...

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We are to...

We are to...

We are to consider mankind not as we wish them, but as we find them, frequently corrupt and always...

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When I was...

When I was...

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at...

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When men come...

When men come...

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

Source: Quoted...

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You are much...

You are much...

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labour,...

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Without economy none...

Without economy none...

Without economy none can be rich, and with it few will be poor.

Source:
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Wonder is the...

Wonder is the...

Wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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George Washington: If to be...

George Washington: If to be...

If to be venerated for benevolence, if to be admired for talents, if to be esteemed for patriotism, if to be beloved...

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Abraham Lincoln: Having thus chosen...

Abraham Lincoln: Having thus chosen...

Having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward...

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Alexander Pope: An excuse is...

Alexander Pope: An excuse is...

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

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Alexander Pope: Awake my St...

Alexander Pope: Awake my St...

Awake my St John! Leave all meaner things
To low ambition, and the pride of kings.
Let us, since life can little...

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Alexander Pope: Be not the...

Alexander Pope: Be not the...

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


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