"Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures."
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"The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow."
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"Freedom is a possession of inestimable value."
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"Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening?"
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"All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another."
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"Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left."
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"There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde; But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale and woe; The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same overthrowe."
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"A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters."
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"We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue."
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"What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us."
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"It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much."
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"What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?"
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"There are more men ennobled by study than by nature."
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"Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due."
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"For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than # agriculture"
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"Leisure with dignity."
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"The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues."
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"It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one."
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"No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven."
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"The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns."
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