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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.

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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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