"The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself."
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"The part of life which we really live is short."
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"The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin."
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"Nature ever provides for her own exigencies."
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"Expediency often silences justice."
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"The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one."
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"Ignorance is the cause of fear."
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"If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly."
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"The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company."
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"Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things."
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"He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will."
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"The voice is nothing but beaten air."
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"It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy."
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"A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer."
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"There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world."
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"The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future."
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"Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one."
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"Life is most delightful on the downward slope."
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"What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?"
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"Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's."
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