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With regard to donations alway...

With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

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I have somewhere met with the ...

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.'

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Justice is an unassailable for...

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.

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Among all kinds of Writing, th...

Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.

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The most violent appetites in ...

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.

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The stars shall fade away, the...

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.

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He who would pass his declinin...

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.

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The union of the Word and the ...

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.

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Courage that grows from consti...

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.

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If we may believe our logician...

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

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Irregularity and want of metho...

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.

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One should take good care not ...

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dread...

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

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If men would consider not so m...

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.

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There is nothing more requisit...

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

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The soul, secured in her exist...

The soul, secured in her existence, smiles
At the drawn dagger, and defies its point.

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Faith is kept alive in us, and...

Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations.

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In private conversation betwee...

In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

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Health and cheerfulness natura...

Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.

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Ridicule is generally made use...

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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