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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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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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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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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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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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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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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
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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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