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Content thyself to be obscurely good.

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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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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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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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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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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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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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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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