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The ready apology covers a multitude of social sins.


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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.



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The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by failures.



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Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument.



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Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.



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By science calmed, over the peaceful soul, Bright with eternal Wisdom's lucid ray, Peace, meek of eye, extends her soft control, And drives the puny Passions far away.



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Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy.



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