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I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.

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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast; but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

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Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

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When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.

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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.

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He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.

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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

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But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again; The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!

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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.

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By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.

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Whatever is, is right.

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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.

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The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

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We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help; were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.

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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.

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To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.

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Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.

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