Quote #35

There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.

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  1. Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
  2. The Book had in a high degree excited us to self-activity, which is the best effect of any book.
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  4. No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
  5. The uttered part of a man's life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown proportion. He himself nev…
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  7. All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.
  8. Man is a tool-using animal...Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

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