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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
Parents and Parenting
Plato

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Science is nothing but perception.
Science and Scientists
Plato

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.
Wisdom
Titus Maccius Plautus

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
Courage
Plutarch

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Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.
Birth
Plutarch

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It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
Ancestry
Plutarch

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Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Uncategorised
Plutarch

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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Mind
Plutarch

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All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream.
Dreams
Edgar Allan Poe

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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
Poetry and Poets
Edgar Allan Poe

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The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.
Mistakes
Pomfret

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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
Nature
Alexander Pope

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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Beauty
Alexander Pope

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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
Wealth
Alexander Pope

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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Merit
Alexander Pope

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Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.
Law and Lawyers
Alexander Pope

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Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
Praise
Alexander Pope

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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
Admiration
Alexander Pope

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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
Faith
Alexander Pope

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Many people are capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
Generosity
Alexander Pope

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Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.
Men
Alexander Pope

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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
Reason
Alexander Pope

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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
Sex
Alexander Pope

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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
Marriage
Alexander Pope

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True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
Wit
Alexander Pope

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun