"The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest."
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"A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life."
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"Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration."
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"Their best and most wholesome feeding is upon one dish and no more and the same plaine and simple: for surely this hudling of many meats one upon another of divers tastes is pestiferous. But sundrie sauces are more dangerous than that."
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"The best plan is to profit by the folly of others."
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"God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion."
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"The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception."
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"This only is certain, that there is nothing certain."
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"Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man."
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"The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred."
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"Human nature is fond of novelty."
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"War should neither be feared nor provoked."
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"When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee."
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"In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew."
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"Honey comes out of the air At early dawn the leaves of trees are found bedewed with honey. Whether this is the perspiration of the sky or a sort of saliva of the stars, or the moisture of the air purging itself, nevertheless it brings with it the great pleasure of its heavenly nature. It is always of the best quality when it is stored in the best flowers."
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"Nulla dies sine linea - Not a day without a line."
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"Hope is a working-man's dream."
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"Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides."
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"True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it."
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"In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment."
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