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What is reading but silent conversation?
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...
Truth, like the juice of a poppy, in small quantities calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them and is attended...
I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been...
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the...
Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
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All men [are] of one metal, but not in one mold.
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Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...
The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well.
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All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know...
Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from...
How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.
A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of...
Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others...
The soul that feeds on books alone --
I count that soul exceeding small
That lives alone by book and creed,...
That man who lives for self alone,
Lives for the meanest mortal known.
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The biggest dog has been a pup.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...
All honor to him who shall win the prize,'
The world has cried for a thousand years;
But to him who tries...
Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes
Us feel that we have grasp'd an...