"Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion."
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"Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep."
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"I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances."
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"Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils."
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"Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended"
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"What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon it. . . . Happiness springs immediately from the mind."
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"Scarcely have I ever heard or read the introductory phrase, "I may say without vanity," but some striking and characteristic instance of vanity has immediately followed."
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"The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake anything like a reformation in religion."
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"Indeed, when religious people quarrel about religion, or hungry people quarrel about victuals, it looks as if they had not much of either among them."
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"Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy"
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"Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action: and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life."
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"'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic."
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"All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world."
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"Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?"
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"What signifies Philosophy that does not apply to some Use? May we not learn from hence, that black Clothes are not so fit to wear in a hot Sunny Climate or Season, as white ones; because in such Cloaths the Body is more heated by the Sun when we walk abroad, and are at the same time heated by the Exercise, which double Heat is apt to bring on putrid dangerous Fevers? The Soldiers and Seamen, who must march and labour in the Sun, should in the East or West Indies have an Uniform of white?"
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"There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies."
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"He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night."
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"If you want to make a friend, let someone do you a favor."
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"Joy doesn't exist in the world, it exists in us."
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"If you'd be wealthy, think of saving, more than of getting: The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her Outgoes equal her Incomes."
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