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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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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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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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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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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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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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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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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 noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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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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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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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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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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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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