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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.

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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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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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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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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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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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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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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 hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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