"Art hath an enemy called ignorance."
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"Turn on the prudent Ant, thy heedful eyes, Observe her labours, Sluggard, and be wise."
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"All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by the addition of that which he withholds from us."
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"Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious."
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"Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say."
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"Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes."
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"That the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily created; every man, in surveying the shops of London, sees numberless instruments and conveniencies, of which, while he did not know them, he never felt the need; and yet, when use has made them familiar, wonders how life could be supported without them. Thus it comes to pass, that our desires always increase with our possessions; the knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed, impairs our enjoyment of the good before us."
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"A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden."
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"None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence."
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"Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it."
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"The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it."
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"The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little."
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"What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect."
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"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."
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"Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment."
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"The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction."
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"Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God."
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"We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinion, because we very often differ from ourselves."
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"Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark."
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"Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor."
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