Aphorisms
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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.
I came, I saw, I conquered.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
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