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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.

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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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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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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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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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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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Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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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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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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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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A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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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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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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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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Encourage innocent amusement.
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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Content Good Obscurely Thyself
Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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