“Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.”
Death“If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.”
Great“Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.”
Death“In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.”
Truth“Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.”
Design“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.”
Art“The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.”
Morning“The future is purchased by the present.”
Future“Your manuscript is both good and original but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.”
Good“There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.”
Art“Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.”
Patriotism“Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.”
Business“He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.”
Great“Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.”
Music“If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.”
Great“No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.”
Money“It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.”
Equality“Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.”
Power“Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.”
Best“The true art of memory is the art of attention.”
Art“Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.”
Marriage“No man was ever great by imitation.”
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