Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.
Robert South
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Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
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Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends
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Novelty is the great parent of pleasure
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Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.
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It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.
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A man's life is an appendix to his heart.
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Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.
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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
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Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.
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Of covetousness, we may truly say that it makes' both the Alpha and Omega in the devil's alphabet, and that it is the first vice in corrupt nature which moves, and the last which dies.
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God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.
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Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.
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If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
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In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.
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