Quote by Lord Chesterfield
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones. – Lord Chesterfield

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Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request. – Lord Chesterfield

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Business
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Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings. – Lord Chesterfield

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Men
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The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older. – Lord Chesterfield

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The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. – Albert Schweitzer

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Jesus accepts you the way you are, but loves you too much to leave you that way. – Lee Venden

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The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling. – H.G. Wells, The Outline of History, 1920

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The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential — and enemies to push us beyond it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The whole history of physics proves that a new discovery is quite likely lurking at the next decimal place. – F.K. Richtmeyer

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Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. – Native American Saying

My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats. – John Cheever, letter to Philip Roth, 10 May 1982, published in The Letters of Jo

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