Aphorisms
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I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
Big Brother is watching you.
We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
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