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" 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. "

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" Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. "

Self-Confidence

" I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney. "

" Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. "

" Actions are visible, though motives are secret. "

" That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner. "

" Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives. "

" It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see. "

" Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance. "

" Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. "

" He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade. "

" The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. "

" There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman. "

" Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle. "

" Exercise is labor without weariness. "

" The true art of memory is the art of attention. "

" There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either. "

" Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger. "

" The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. "

" Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him. "

" Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it. "

" The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking. "

" If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it? "

" Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. "

" What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. "

" He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. "

" What is easy is seldom excellent. "

" So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other. "