I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil. - William Shenstone

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I had over twenty years ago damaged the cilia in my ears. This has taught me many things. One thing I learned, paradoxically, is that there is much to be heard in silence.

William Shenstone

I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.

Lamp, Learning, Midnight, Oil, Trimmed

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When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments; when to those of our own sect, we call them trials; when to persons neither way distinguished, we are content to attribute them to the settled course of things.

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A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

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The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

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Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

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Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.

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I had over twenty years ago damaged the cilia in my ears. This has taught me many things. One thing I learned, paradoxically, is that there is much to be heard in silence.

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