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Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
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Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.
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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.
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Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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See in what peace a Christian can die.
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Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
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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 post of honor is a private station.
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The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.
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