"O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity'd, And not be ruin'd in the mask of bliss, And so be envy'd, and be wretched too!"
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"The person of wisdom is the person of years."
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"The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss."
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"He sins against this life, who slights the next."
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"A man of pleasure is a man of pains."
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"A God all mercy is a God unjust."
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"The first sure symptom of a mind in health Is rest of heart and pleasure felt at home."
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"Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life."
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"By all means use some time to be alone."
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"Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, "that my heart has bled.""
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"A Christian is the highest style of man."
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"If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world."
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"Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer. Next day the fatal precedent will plead; thus on, til wisdom is pushed our of life."
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"Virtue alone has majesty in death."
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"Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue."
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"How science dwindles, and how volumes swell, How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun!"
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"Wonder is involuntary praise."
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"Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread."
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"And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?"
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"The melancholy ghosts of dead renown, Whispering faint echoes of the world's applause."
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