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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.

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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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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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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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There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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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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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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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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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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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 reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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