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Erasmus Quotes: It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
         

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.


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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.



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A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.



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By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.



Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.



Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.



Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.



They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.



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No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.





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