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Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin and dishonor.

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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

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'We are always doing', says he, 'something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us.

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We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull.

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A man should always consider how much more unhappy he might be than he is

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We are always doing, says he, something for posterity, but I would see posterity do something for us.

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A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world.

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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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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

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I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution of his country

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A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.

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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.

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Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.

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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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The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment.

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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

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Jesters do often prove prophets.

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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.

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The utmost extent of man's knowledge is to know that he knows nothing.

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