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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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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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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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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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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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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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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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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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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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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
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