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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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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.

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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.

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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.

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What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?

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Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.

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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.

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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.

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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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Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king.

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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.

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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

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Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.

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Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.

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What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.

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Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

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To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.

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An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.

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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

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Virtue alone is happiness below.

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