All grand thoughts come from the heart.
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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
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Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
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Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.
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Great thoughts always come from the heart.
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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
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Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.
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Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.
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Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.
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One promises much, to avoid giving little.
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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
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The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
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The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.
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The idle always have a mind to do something.
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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
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The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
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The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
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Those who can bear all can dare all.
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To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
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To possess taste, one must have some soul.
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Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
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We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
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When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.
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Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
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You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.
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You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
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