“Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection.”
Wisdom Quotes · Page 34
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“Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.”
“Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men.”
“Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”
“When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.”
“What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.”
“The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.”
“To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.”
“Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world.”
“No doubt the reason is that character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.”
“Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.”
“I had now the key to all language, and I was eager to learn to use it.”
“Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.”
“Good deeds remain good, no matter whether we know how the world was made or not.”
“Only he who ceaselessly aims at moral completeness is, in the true sense, a human being.”
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