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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Topic: Accomplishments
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Topic: Action
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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem -and in my esteem age is not estimable.
Topic: Age
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There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
Topic: Bargain
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Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
Topic: Confession
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If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.
Topic: Cruelty
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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the young mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Topic: Curiosity
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An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
Topic: Education
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
Topic: Education
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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -Anatole France.
Topic: Education
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An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Topic: Education
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I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
Topic: Enthusiasm
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That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
Topic: Future
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History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
Topic: History
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It is by acts, and not by ideas that people live.
Topic: Ideas
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Topic: Ignorance
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Topic: Ignorance
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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.
Topic: Immortality
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I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
Topic: Indifference
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It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.
Topic: Innocence
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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Topic: Irony
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Topic: Law
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How noble the law, in its majestic equality, that both the rich and poor are equally prohibited from peeing in the streets, sleeping under bridges, and stealing bread!
Topic: Law
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I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
Topic: Poverty
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Topic: Reincarnation
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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labour by taking up another.
Topic: Relaxation
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It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.
Topic: Thinking
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The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
Topic: Want
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The finest words in the world are only vain sounds, if you cannot comprehend them.
Topic: Word
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You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.
Topic: Writer
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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the young mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Topic: ~curiosity
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