I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes. -Joseph Priestley

 

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.


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Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.

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It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.

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I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes. -Joseph Priestley
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Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.

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Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

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What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others. -Joseph Priestley
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Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

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