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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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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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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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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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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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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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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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