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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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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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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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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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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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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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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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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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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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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If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
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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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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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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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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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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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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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