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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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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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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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Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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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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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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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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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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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 is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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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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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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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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