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He that embarks on the

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many foulder in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.
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Judgment is forced upon us

Judgment is forced upon us by experience.
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Poetry cannot be translated; and,

Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.
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Knowledge always desires increase; it

Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterward propagate it.
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Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal,

Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent.
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Being reproached for giving to

Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, "I did not give it to the man, but to humanity."
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Where there is no hope,

Where there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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