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Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.
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Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
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War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
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There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
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There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.
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Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
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The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
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The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.
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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
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