“A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.”
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Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one.
Know the true value of time snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.