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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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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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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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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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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 contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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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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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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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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