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... overconfidence in one's own ability is the root of much evil. Vanity, egoism, is the deadliest of all characteristics. This va ...
If any doubt has arisen as to me, my country [Virginia] will have my political creed in the form of a "Declaration &c." which I wa ...
I should tell you that honestly, on my honour of a Nearwicked, I always think in a wordworth's of that primed favourite continenta ...
The A B C of being,
The ruddy temper, the hammer
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Before he has learned his a b c in the beautiful but mystic lore of the wilderness which Spenser and Dante had just begun to read, ...
One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and mak ...
It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a ...
Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowl ...
Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, ...
We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a l ...
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