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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
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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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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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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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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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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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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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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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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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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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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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