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- Nov 07, 2020
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- 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