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I will never do this, says one, yet does it: I am resolved to do this, says another; but flags upon second Thoughts: Or does it, tho’ awkwardly, for his Word’s sake: As if it were worse to break his Word, than to do amiss in keeping it.


William Penn


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The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit.


Marty Rubin


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All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort. It spoils Health, dismounts the Mind, and unmans Men: It reveals Secrets, is Quarrelsome, Lascivious, Impudent, Dangerous and Mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a Man: Because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.


William Penn


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All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.


James Thurber


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The most dangerous enemy of truth and freedom among us- is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority...


Thomas Stockmann; Thomas Stockman


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Whether you live to be 50 or 100 makes no difference, if you made no difference in the world.


Jarod Kintz


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The true basis and propaedeutic for all knowledge of human nature is the persuasion that a man's actions are, essentially and as a whole, not directed by his reason and its designs; so that no one becomes this or that because he wants to, though he want to never so much, but that his conduct proceeds from his inborn and inalterable character, is narrowly and in particulars determined by motivation, and is thus necessarily the product of these two factors.


Arthur Schopenhauer


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To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.


Saki


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There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.


Marty Rubin


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Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.


Samuel Taylor Coleridge


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