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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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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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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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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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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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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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