No man was ever great by imitation.
From Samuel Johnson
So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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