Världen är en komedi för dem som tänker, en tragedi för dem som känner.
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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
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So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may you always be solaced and cheered by the exulting cry of triumph over some abuse in Church or State, some vice or folly in society, some false opinion or cruelty or guilt which you have overcome! And I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
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Letters to absence can a voice impart, And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart.
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A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.
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'Heap coals of fire on the head of your enemy' Mthis most uncharitable advice is found in a book [the Bible], of which charity is reckoned the...
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The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
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Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true
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Fidelity is the sister of justice.
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Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.
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Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
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Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero. Lat., Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow.
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Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.
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When Sir Robert Walpole was dying, he told Ranby his surgeon that he desired his body might be opened. Ranby acting great horror cried, 'Good ...
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Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
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Mountains will be in labour, and the birth will be an absurd little mouse.
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You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
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I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.
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Whatever advice you give, be short.
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If Paris lived now, and preferred beauty to power and riches, it would not be called his Judgment, but his Want of Judgment.
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The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
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Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
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Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
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Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man.
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It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
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Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.
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I teach that all men are mad.
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It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible reading People.
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One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, Have a nice day.
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