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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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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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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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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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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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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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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
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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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There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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