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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

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With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

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One's religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success.

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Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

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Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

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A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves a constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions that can possibly befall us.

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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.

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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

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Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling.

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Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

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Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.

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That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

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Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!

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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

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