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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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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
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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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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
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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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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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