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Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

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Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

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So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

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It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.

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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

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There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.

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An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

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I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

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Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

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Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

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Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

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I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.

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In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them.

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God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

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Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.

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Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

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Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

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Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current.

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In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

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An English man does not travel to see English men.

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I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

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What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!

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I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

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Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

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Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

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Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

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A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.

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Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!

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One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.

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Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

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When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.

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'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one.

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Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

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But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.

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People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.

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