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In principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.
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You see, but you do not observe.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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If a man is mistaken, instruct him kindly and show him his error. But if thy are not able, blame thyself, or blame not even thyself.
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To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.
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Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
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Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
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One must not make oneself cheap here – that is a cardinal point – or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.
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This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs.
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Look at everything that exists, and observe that it is already in dissolution and change, and as it were putrefaction or dispersion, or that everything is so constituted in nature as to die.
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