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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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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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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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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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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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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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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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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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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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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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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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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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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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