"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."

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"Ability without honor is useless."

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"I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability."

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"The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish."

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"Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary."

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"Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end."

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"There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer."

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"No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year."

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"You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long."

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"Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth."

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"People do not understand what a great revenue economy is."

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"They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper."

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"Empire and liberty."

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"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."

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"The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body."

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"True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long."

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"Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow."

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"Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty."

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"Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind."

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"Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat."

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"It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own."

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"Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered."

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"Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends."

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"What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk."

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"A friend is, as it were, a second self."

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