"Nothing dries sooner than a tear."
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"That he who hath the loan of money has not repaid it, and he who has repaid has not the loan; but he who has acknowledged a kindness has it still, and he who has a feeling of it has requited it."
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"Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own."
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"But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature."
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"In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy."
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"As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration."
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"What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might."
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"True nobility is exempt from fear."
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"There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it."
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"Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it."
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"The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit."
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"There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow."
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"There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him."
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"In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered."
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"It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness."
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"Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine."
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"Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen."
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"The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man."
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"The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free."
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"Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself."
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