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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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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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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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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
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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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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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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 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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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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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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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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