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Many shining actions owe their success to chance though the general or statesman runs away with the applause.

— Henry Home, Lord Kames Treasury of Thought (1881)

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Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature.

Treasury of Thought (1881)

Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous, than virtuous love.

Treasury of Thought (1881)

A man does but faintly relish that felicity which costs him nothing; happy they whom pain leads to pleasure.

Treasury of Thought (1881)

The comparison of love to fire holds good in one respect, that the fiercer it burns the sooner it is extinguished.

Treasury of Thought (1881)

Every man, however little, makes a figure in his own eyes.

Treasury of Thought (1881)

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