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Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

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Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

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It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.

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Familiarity breeds contempt.

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Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

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What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

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Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

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Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.

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Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.

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If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.

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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

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Nature is what we know - Yet have not art to say - So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity.

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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

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APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom.

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Remember that ofttimes the wisdom of God appears as foolishness to men, but the greatest single lesson we can learn in mortality is that when God speaks and a man obeys, that man will always be right.

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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

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