Aphorisms
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It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.
The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
Our best thoughts come from others.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.
Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.
In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
Let no such man be trusted.
We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.
The wheel is come full circle.
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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