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A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.

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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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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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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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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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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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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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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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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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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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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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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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