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- Nov 07, 2020
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- 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