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"All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.

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"We thought that, perhaps," said I, hesitating, "it is right to begin with the obligations of home, sir; and that, perhaps, while those are overlooked and neglected, no other duties can possibly be substituted for them."

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'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'

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Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

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A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

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Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.

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... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.

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At last, however, he began to think -- as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too . . .

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When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be that he has no belief in anybody else, because he has no belief in himself.

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...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.

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Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.

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I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it?

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I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.

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I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.

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Truthfulness. He will never willingly tolerate an untruth, but will hate it as much as he loves truth... And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

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Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.

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You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn.

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Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

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Transient are conditioned things. Try to accomplish your aim with diligence.

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Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.

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