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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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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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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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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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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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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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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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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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