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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

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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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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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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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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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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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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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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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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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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 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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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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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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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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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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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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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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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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