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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.

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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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