Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
PLINY THE ELDERHow many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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Home is where the heart is.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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