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- A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labour and there is invisible labour.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
- Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is also a disruption of thought.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
- One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.
- Marie Henri Beyle (1783 - 1842)
- When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
- If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.
- Xenophon (434 BC - 355 BC)
- Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense.
- Theocritus of Chios (310 BC - 250 BC)
- The past is certain, the future obscure.
- Thales (635 BC - 543 BC)
- Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.
- William Thayer Shedd
- O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall.
- Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321)
- The fact speak for themselves.
- Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC)
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