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People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.
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Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.
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The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
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We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
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Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
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To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.
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Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
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We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.
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Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!
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What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.
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