Absence of occupation is not rest.
WILLIAM COWPERThe man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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