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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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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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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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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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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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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
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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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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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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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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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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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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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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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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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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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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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