"Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice."
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"The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature."
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"... there is much truth in the Italian saying, 'Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.'"
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"So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do."
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"You will see in this my notion of good works, that I am far from expecting to merit heaven by them. By heaven we understand a state of happiness, infinite in degree, and eternal in duration. I can do nothing to deserve such rewards... Even the mixed imperfect pleasures we enjoy in this world, are rather from God's goodness than our merit, how much more such happiness of heaven!"
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"There is nothing wrong with retirement as long as one doesn't allow it to interfere with one's work."
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"If you would not be forgotten, do things worth remembering."
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"Acquire Riches by Industry and Frugality."
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"As charms are nonsense, nonsense is a charm."
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"A little sturdiness when superiors are much in the wrong sometimes occasions consideration. And there is truth in the old saying that if you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you."
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"In order to be happy you need a good dog, a good woman, and ready money."
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"Remember, Sir, that [England] began the slave trade!"
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"The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief."
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"Conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit his assistance for obtaining it."
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"The punishment of murder by death is contrary to reason, and to the order and happiness of society, and contrary to divine revelation."
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"She that paints her Face, thinks of her Tail."
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"To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems like the ineffectual charity mentioned by the apostle, which consisted in saying to the hungry, the cold and the naked, be ye fed, be ye warmed, be ye clothed, without showing them how they should get food, fire or clothing."
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"...till we are uneasy in Rest, we can have no Desire to move, and without Desire of moving there can be no voluntary Motion."
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"Those who are fear'd, are hated."
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"Duty is not beneficial because it is commanded, but is commanded because it is beneficial."
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