"I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning."

Achievement, Greatness, Man

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"I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning."

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"The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes."

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"There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake."

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"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."

Nothing

"Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest."

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"And he gave it for his opinion that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before would deserve better of mankind and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together."

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"I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution."

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"They say fingers were made before forks and hands before knives."

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"He put this engine [a silver pocket watch] into our ears, which made an incessant noise, like that of a water-mill: and we conjecture it is either some unknown animal, or the god that he worships; but we are more inclined to the latter opinion, because he assured us, (if we understood him right, for he expressed himself very imperfectly) that he seldom did any thing without consulting it. He called it his oracle, and said, it pointed out the time for every action of his life."

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"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others."

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