"If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle."
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"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust."
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"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome."
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"Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense."
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"There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity."
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"The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down."
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"One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts."
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"Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards."
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"I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth."
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"Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail."
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"From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end."
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"Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others."
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"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."
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"A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments."
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"Life is but short; no time can be afforded but for the indulgence of real sorry, or contests upon questions seriously momentous. Let us not throw away any of our days upon useless resentment, or contend who shall hold out longest in stubborn malignity. It is best not to be angry; and best, in the next place, to be quickly reconciled."
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"When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped."
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"Your aspirations are your possibilities."
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"Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to each other."
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"Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves."
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"What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence."
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