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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
Thomas Carlyle
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Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
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The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
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Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
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Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
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For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
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All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
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Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
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Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.
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