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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

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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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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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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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Encourage innocent amusement.
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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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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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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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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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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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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.
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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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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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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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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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