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"Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity."
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"What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch."
"Desire is easy to fight. Especially when the only weapon desire possesses is attraction. It's not so easy when you're trying to win a war against the heart."
"Not everyone who owns it, Loves it; nor everyone who Loves it, Can own it!"
"Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing."
"We want money but we crave appreciation."
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"The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation."
"Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much."
"We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity."
"The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection."
"Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him."
"It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn."
"Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion."
"Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind."
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