"Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter."
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"To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well."
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"He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything."
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"In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die."
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"To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed."
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"If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds neither wall, nor mountains, nor seas could afford any security."
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"Each person's work is always a portrait of himself."
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"There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern."
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"If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."
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"No man was ever great by imitation."
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"A man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place."
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"Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people."
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"Language is the dress of thought."
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"The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne."
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"Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is strange, yet nothing new: Endless labor all along, Endless labor to be wrong: Phrase that Time has flung away; Uncouth words in disarray, Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode, and elegy, and sonnet."
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"When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four."
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"I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, as it would counteract my natural inclination. I would have something that can dissipate the inertia and give elasticity to the muscles. We can heat the body, we can cool it; we can give it tension or relaxation; and surely it is possible to bring it into a state in which rising from bed will not be a pain."
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"I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain."
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"Change is not made without inconvenience."
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"Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life."
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