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264 Inventor Quotes

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Worth Write Reading Either
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Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
Forget Teach Involve Learn
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Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Vices Peace War Neighbors
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They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Essential Obtain Little Liberty
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If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.

Would Dead Not Worth
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There are two ways of being happy — we may either diminish our wants or augment our means — either will do, the result is the same; and it is for each man to decide for himself, and do that which happens to be the easiest. If you are idle or sick or poor, however hard it may be to diminish your wants, it will be harder to augment your means.

Happy Want Same Mean
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If you are active and prosperous, or young, or in good health, it may be easier for you to augment your means than to diminish your wants. But if you are wise, you will do both at the same time, young or old, rich or poor, sick or well; and if you are wise, you will do both in such a way as to augment the general happiness of society.

Active Young Want Poor
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Some, to make themselves considerable, pursue learning; others grasp at wealth; some aim at being thought witty; and others are only careful to make the most of a handsome person; but what is wit, or wealth, or form, or learning, when compared with virtue? It is true we love the handsome, we applaud the learned, and we fear the rich and powerful; but we even worship and adore the virtuous.”

Pursue Careful Person Fear
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A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Than One Learn Great
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A man of words and not of deeds, is like a garden full of weeds.

Word Deed Full Man
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Having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.

Long Better Found Many
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The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked, than the supine, secure, and negligent.

Peace Guard Secure Way
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Don’t go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst.

Every Get With Pot
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The worship of God is a duty; the hearing and reading of sermons may be useful; but if men rest in hearing and praying, as too many do, it is as if a tree should value itself in being watered and putting forth leaves, tho’ it never produced any fruit.

Duty Value Fruit Never
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When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat, and money in your pocket, is better and more creditable, than a writ on your back, and no money to take it off.

Shift Remember Pocket Better
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When there is so much to be done for yourself, your family, and your country, be up by peep of day! Let not the sun look down and say, ‘Inglorious here he lies!

Much Your Yourself Done
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To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems like the ineffectual charity mentioned by the apostle, which consisted in saying to the hungry, the cold and the naked, be ye fed, be ye warmed, be ye clothed, without showing them how they should get food, fire or clothing.

Expect Good Food People
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Would you live with ease, do what you ought and not what you please.

Live Not What Would
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God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fees.

Heal Fee Take The
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He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to the time he promises, may at any time, and on any occasion, raise all the money his friends can spare.

Known Exact Time Spare
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When I am employed in serving others, I do not look upon myself as conferring favors, but as paying debts. I have received much kindness from men to whom I shall never have an opportunity of making the least direct returns; and numberless mercies from God, who is infinitely above being benefited by our services. Those kindnesses from men I can, therefore, only return on their fellow-men, and I can only show my gratitude for those mercies from God by a readiness to help His other children.

Receive Return Favor Much
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“Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Wise Rise Early Make
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Life, like a dramatic piece, should not only be conducted with regularity, but it should finish handsomely.

Life Not Only Should
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The art of getting riches consists very much in thrift. All men are not equally qualified for getting money, but it is in the power of every one alike to practice this virtue.

Art Much Virtue Very
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If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Away Interest Head Purse
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Our opinions are not in our own power; they are formed and governed much by circumstances that are often as inexplicable as they are irresistible.

Own Our Power Form
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Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.

Fool Have Honest Are
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After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together.

After Pair Found Half
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I would advise you to read with a pen in hand, and enter in a little book short hints of what you find that is curious, or that may be useful; for this will be the best method of imprinting such particulars in your memory.

Advise Hand Useful Best
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There are in life real evils enough, and it is folly to afflict ourselves with imaginary ones; it is time enough when the real ones arrive.

Real Arrive Life Time
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Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Life Old Wise Late
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when you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

World Attention Command Common
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If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.

Find Universe Secret Energy
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Time Certain Succeed Weakness
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The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

Chaos Society Genius Breeds
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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Hope No Hope Vision Where
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How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

Aged Because Been Being
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Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
Destroy Eventually Fear Hate
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Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

Door Education Freedom Golden
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If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.

Anything Enough Love Talk
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There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.

Achievement Anything Cut Life
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From a child, I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music, painting, flowers, and the sciences, Algebra being one of my favorite studies.

Algebra Being Child Desire
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I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.

Broadcasting Every God Hour
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Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.

Creative Creative Mind Developments Encourage
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Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.

Changes Creator Despite Earth
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When our thoughts - which bring actions - are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be.

Actions Against Anyone Bring
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Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

About Books Carefully Fine
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Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

Beautiful Before Loveliness More
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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Come Excuses Failures Habit
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No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.

Any Behind Come Distinct
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