A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
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Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
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The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.
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A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
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To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
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How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue Who would not be that youth What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
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