Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

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They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

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Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.

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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

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