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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.

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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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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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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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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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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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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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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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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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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 true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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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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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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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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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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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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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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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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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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