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If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?
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Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
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Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
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All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
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It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
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It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
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What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
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The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
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The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
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No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.
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It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
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Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
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I am sorry to think that you do not get a man’s most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.