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James Russell Lowell

Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.

Character | Pride | Weakness |

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James Russell Lowell

All thoughts that mould the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.

Age | Character | Soul |

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Marya Mannes

Minds are cluttered from the age of six with the values of others - values which bear little relation to their own private capacities, needs and desires.

Age | Character | Little |

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Michel de Montaigne, fully Lord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

From obedience and submission spring all other virtues, as all sin does form self-opinion.

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Michel de Montaigne, fully Lord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Old age puts more wrinkles in our minds than on our faces; and we never, or rarely, see a soul that in growing old does not come to smell sour and musty. Man grows and dwindles in his entirety.

Age | Character | Man | Old age | Soul | Old |

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Michel de Montaigne, fully Lord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Every period of life has its peculiar prejudice; whoever saw old age that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?

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Pliny the Elder, full name Casus Plinius Secundus NULL

Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally a mortal bane to all the body.

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John O'Brien

The desire of one man to live on the fruits of another's labor is the original sin of the world.

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John Jason Owen

He that hath slight thought of sin never had great thoughts of God.

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Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence, born Frederick Lawrence

If I were asked to sum up in a single phrase the main purpose of individual life I would express it as the enlargement of personality. Unless an individual can transcend the limits of class, sex, race, age and creed, his personality remains of necessity to that extent incomplete.

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Plautus, full name Titus Maccius Plautus NULL

Not by age but by character is wisdom attained.

Age | Character | Wisdom |

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Austin O'Malley

After thirty-five a man begins to have thoughts about women; before that age he has feelings.

Age | Character | Feelings | Man |

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Arthur Rimbaud, fully Jean-Nicolas-Arthur Rimbaud

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.”

Action | Character | Morality | Weakness |

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Marjorie Bowen, pen names included Joseph Shearing, George R. Preddy, John Winch, Robert Paye and Margaret Campbell, Pseudonym of Mrs Garbrielle Margaret Vere Long née Campbell

The wages of sin and the reward of virtue are not so different.

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Sydney Smith

It is the calling of great men, not so much to preach new truths, as to rescue from oblivion those old truths which it is our wisdom to remember and our weakness to forget.

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Madame Swetchine, fully Anne Sophie Swetchine née Sophia Petrovna Soïmonov or Soymanof

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. A straw or a feather sustains itself long in the air.

Character | Strength | Weakness |

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William L. Sullivan

Solitary we must be in life's great hours of moral decisions; solitary in pain and sorrow; solitary in old age and in our going forth at death. Fortunate the man who has learned what to do in solitude and brought himself to see what companionship he may discover in it, what fortitude, what content.

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