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Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

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A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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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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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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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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