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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.

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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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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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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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Know Knowledge Literature Men Nothing Utmost
I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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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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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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Faith Morality Nothing Observance Strength
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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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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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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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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