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A good name is like a precious ointment; it filleth all around about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.
from the book "Essays" by Francis Bacon
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It will secure you from the narrow idolatry of the present times and fashions, and create the noblest kind of imaginative power in your soul, that of living in past ages; wholly devoid of which power, a man can neither anticipate the future, nor even live a truly human life, a life of reason, in the present.
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All things are the same, familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried.
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Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
from the book "" by Arthur Conan Doyle
Cato said the best way to keep good acts in memory was to refresh them with new.
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Do not mistake yourself by believing that your being has something in it more exalted than that of others.
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The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
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Virtue is like a rich stone: best plain set.
from the book "Essays" by Francis Bacon
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Be a mere assistant to your unconscious. Do only half the work. The rest will do itself.
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It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.
from the book "" by George Eliot