FastSaying
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
Reading
Life
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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
Admiration
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.
— Joseph Priestley
Disillusionment
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.
— Joseph Priestley
It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.
— Joseph Priestley
Communication
I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning...
— Joseph Priestley
Communication
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