FastSaying
Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process.
Joseph Priestley
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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.
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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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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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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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