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To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

Air Passion Words Of Wisdom

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

Curiosity Memories Parent

It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth.

Sides Truth Wish

The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind.

Appreciate Gratitude Mind

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.

Judgment Law Optics

It is folly to shiver over last year's snow.

Regret Snow Years

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

Curiosity Ploughing Science

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

Helping Others Men Selfish

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

Influence Manners Men

As the telescope is not a substitute for, but an aid to, our sight, so revelation is not designed to supersede the use of reason, but to supply its deficiencies.

Bible Sight Use

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

Good Day Good Morning Up Early

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

Dinner Food Tables

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

Driven Men Sheep

As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.

Faith Flower Fruit

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

Effort Failure

A man will never change his mind if he have no mind to change.

Change Men Mind

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

Children Giving Men

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

Rebuilding Wisdom Wise

Men first make up their minds (and the smaller the mind the sooner made up), and then seek for the reasons; and if they chance to stumble upon a good reason, of course they do not reject it. But though they are right, they are only right by chance.

Decision Men Mind

Persecution is not wrong because it is cruel; but it is cruel because it is wrong.

Persecution