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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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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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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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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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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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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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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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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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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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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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