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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.

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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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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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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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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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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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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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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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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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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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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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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 you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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