Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.

Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.

While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings; Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.

If you consider that you are changing it mean that you are getting something And try to be different from yesterday, because it makes you confident

We look wishfully to emergencies, to eventful, revolutionary times...and think how easy to have taken our part when the drum was rolling and the house was burning over our heads. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

College is for finding yourself. I've established who I want to be.

You don't comb the mirror, you comb your own hair and the mirror changes.

It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time.

When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.

You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.

I was glad to be with her, but it also kind of hurt, and it hurt when I wasn't with her, too.