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Seek first the virtues of the mind; and other things either will come, or will not be wanted.
Very little is needed to make a happy life.
But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Poor man wanna be rich;
Rich man wanna be king.
And a king ain't satisfied
Till he rules everything.
Someone has said that conversation is sex for the soul.
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet.