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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
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Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
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One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
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A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.
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A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.
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A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
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Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.
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That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
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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.
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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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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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As we mature spiritually, we exhibit a growing capacity to care for and appreciate one another in the body of Christ, regardless of our differences.
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Being part of an agenda beyond ourselves liberates us to complement each other rather than compete with each other.
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Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
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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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