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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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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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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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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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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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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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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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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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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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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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