Aphorisms
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A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
Let your desires be ruled by reason.
The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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