"I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind."

Knowledge, Curiosity, Understanding, Desire

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"I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind."

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"In the pages of a book, we find greatest solitude."

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"By reading, we will know the minds of great soul."

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"Getting to know who you are is the most essential information that you can find out about yourself."

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"You need to know the constituency you belong to...and that is revealed by your constituents. When your constituents are speaking in public and making of stories, your constituency can be "journalism"."

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"He lives happy and master of himself who can say as each day passes on, "I have lived."

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"What a prodigious conscience must that be that can be at quiet within itself whilst it harbors under thesame roof, with so agreeing and so calm a society, both the crime and the judge?"

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"It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite smothered her."

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"The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough."

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"We should tend our freedom wisely."

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"The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will."

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"There never were two opinions alike in all the world no more than two hours or two grains: the most universal quality is diversity."

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"The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing."

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"There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation."

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"We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom."

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