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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.

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Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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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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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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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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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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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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