Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

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Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

Error is always more busy than truth.

Error is always more busy than truth.

Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient inquiry leadeth the way.

Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient inquiry leadeth the way.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than...

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than...

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his...

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his...

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is...

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is...

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little...

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little...

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Word to wise...Never tell someone with ambition what they can't do. They will work even...

Word to wise...Never tell someone with ambition what they can't do. They will work even...