Aphorisms
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A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

Mark Twain

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The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.

Jules Renard

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When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Theodore Roosevelt

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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Plutarch

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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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.

Plato

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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Saint Augustine

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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

Joseph Addison

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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

Alexander the Great

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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Albert Einstein

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Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Juvenal

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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

Thomas Hobbes

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Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Desiderius Erasmus

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The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Albert Einstein

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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Little things affect little minds.

Benjamin Disraeli

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A promise must never be broken.

Alexander Hamilton

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