Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
From Robert South
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.
Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.
Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.
Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.
Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.
Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.
The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.
Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.
Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
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