Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
HENRY FIELDINGThere cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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