- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
- Comfort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.
- Heroes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
- India
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- Nov 07, 2020
My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.
- Misery
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
- Does
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- Nov 07, 2020
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never less alone than when by myself.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.
- Image
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- Nov 07, 2020
Style is the image of character.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
- Gratitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.
- Present
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- Nov 07, 2020