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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.

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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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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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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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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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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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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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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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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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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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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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