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He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.

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Drink to-day, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow.

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Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

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What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next...

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That life protracted is protracted woe.

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Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

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Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.

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Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

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Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

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Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet

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Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

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Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return.

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The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principal subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.

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There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.

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Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.

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Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

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Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.

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Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

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