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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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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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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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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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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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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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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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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
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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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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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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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