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To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight.

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Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

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I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so.

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It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can.

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Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

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Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.

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Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done.

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Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

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Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

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Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

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Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

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Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.

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Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

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All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.

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A fool is wise in his eyes.

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A merry heart doeth good like medicine.

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A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

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A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

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Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

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