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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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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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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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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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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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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.
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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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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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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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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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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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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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