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- If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), 'Les Malheureux'
- Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), 'Poor Richard's Almanack,' June 1746
- Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.
- Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661), 'The Holy State and the Profane State,' 1642
- Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), 'Cato'
- I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), 'The Spectator'
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
- Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), 'Sohrab and Rustum,' 1853
- The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
- Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), 'Literature and Dogma,' preface to 1883 edition, last words
- Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.
- Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682), 'Christian Morals,' 1716
- The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
- It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
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