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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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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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How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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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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The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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Consider Deposed Dispute Divide Follow King Quickly
Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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