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- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
- Fitness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
- Heaven
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
- Great Talent
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- Nov 07, 2020
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
- Good Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
- Ground
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- Nov 07, 2020
To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
- Lightning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
- Eminent
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Nov 07, 2020
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
- Growing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.
- Mere
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
- Greatest Blessing
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- Nov 07, 2020
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
- Destroy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Human Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.
- Debarred
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- Nov 07, 2020
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
- Patience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
- Heaven
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!
- Constitutions
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- Nov 07, 2020
A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
- Prophets
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jesters do often prove prophets.
- Good Breeding
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- Nov 07, 2020
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
- Post
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- Nov 07, 2020
The post of honour is a private station.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.
- Criticism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020