"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."
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"Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable."
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"Rain is good for vegetables, and for the animals who eat those vegetables, and for the animals who eat those animals."
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"In life's last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise! From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show."
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"Reflect that life, like every other blessing, Derives its value from its use alone."
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"Learn that the present hour alone is man's."
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"No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it."
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"Philosophers there are who try to make themselves believe that this life is happy; but they believe it only while they are saying it, and never yet produced conviction in a single mind."
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"Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come."
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"All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle."
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"Life is barren enough surely with all her trappings; let us be therefore cautious of how we strip her."
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"He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him."
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"Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; - from fear of its being abused."
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"The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and gentleness."
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"All theory is against free will; all experience is for it."
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"He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel."
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"Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil."
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"Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with to much dejection."
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"I have all my life long been lying in bed till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good."
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"If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written."
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