"Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God."
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"Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity."
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"We are bound by the law, so that we may be free."
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"What is dignity without honesty?"
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"Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow."
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"I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Nature, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation."
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"Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion."
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"The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity."
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"Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it."
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"The great theatre for virtue is conscience."
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"The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]"
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"History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time."
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"Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them."
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"Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun."
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"If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability."
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"A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others."
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"Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches."
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"Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men."
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"An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only."
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"Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life."
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