Miscellaneous Collections

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The true, strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
-- Samuel Johnso...
The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places.
-- Baltasar Gracian, "The Art of Worldly Wisdom" 1647...
The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)...
The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe--fear and awe of the State.
-- Edward Abbey...
The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.
-- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Heroes and Hero-Worship, The Hero as a Man of Lette...
The true value of a human being is determined by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from self.
-- Albert Einstei...
The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground.
It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon. -- Franz Kafka...
The true way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.
-- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 127...
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. -- Michelangelo

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