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Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.
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Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear as a farthing.
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
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Knowledge, that tendeth but to satisfaction, is but as a courtesan, which is for pleasure, and not for fruit or generation.
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For man seeketh in society comfort, use, and protection: and they be three wisdoms of divers natures, which do often sever: wisdom of the behaviour, wisdom of business, and wisdom of state.
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You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public men.
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Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.
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Continuously thou wilt look at human things as smoke and nothing at all; especially if thou reflectest at the same time, that what has once changed will never exist again in the infinite duration of time. But thou, in what a brief space of time is thy existence? And why art thou not content to pass through this short time in an orderly way?
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We have long struggles with ourself, of which the outcome is one of our actions; they are, as it were, the inner side of human nature. This inner side is God's; the outer side belongs to men.
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