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The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

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Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

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Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

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Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

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A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

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It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can.

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Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

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Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

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The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.

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Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Clergyman

Born: June 3rd, 1771

Died: February 22nd, 1845

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