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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it. Others do just the same with their time.[][]
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.[][]
Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.[][]
One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.[][]
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.[][]
Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.[][]
Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.[][]
On every mountain height is rest.[][]
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.[][]
It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.[][]
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.[][]
Life is the childhood of our immortality.[][]
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.[][]
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.[][]
Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it is sure to repent every ill-judged outlay.[][]
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.[][]
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.[][]
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.[][]
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.[][]
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.[][]
To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.[][]
The coward only threatens when he is safe.[][]
What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.[][]
Every step of life shows much caution is required.[][]
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.[][]
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