"Exercise is labor without weariness."
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"He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and interest; from the only companion with whom he has shared much good and evil; and with whom he could set his mind at liberty, to retrace the past or anticipate the future. The continuity of being is lacerated; the settled course of sentiment and action is stopped; and life stands suspended and motionless."
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"If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father."
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"The future is purchased by the present."
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"Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place."
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"We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them."
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"When emulation leads us to strive for self-elevation by merit alone, and not by belittling another, then it is one of the grandest possible incentives to action."
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"The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words."
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"He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale."
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"The resolution of the combat is seldom equal to the vehemence of the charge."
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"Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly."
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"I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it"
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"Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last."
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"Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature."
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"Unintelligible language is a lantern without a light."
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"Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow."
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"The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year."
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"A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man."
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"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it."
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"To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its own sophisms, and keep it on guard against the fallacies which it practices on others"
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