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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

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The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.

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'Tis not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.

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To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny

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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

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We are always doing 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 very next step to being dull

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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 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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Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it

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The post of honour is a private station.

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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.

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The woman that deliberates is lost.

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A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.

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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...

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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.

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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.

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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.

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