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/ page 293 of 1205 /The world is not yet exhaused let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
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In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.
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Fate wings with every wish th' afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art,
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Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.
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He played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ace.
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Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.
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The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
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He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and interest; from the only companion with whom he has shared much good and evil; and with whom he could set his mind at liberty, to retrace the past or anticipate the future. The continuity of being is lacerated; the settled course of sentiment and action is stopped; and life stands suspended and motionless.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others... This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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BOSWELL " ... Is not the fear of death natural to man?" JOHNSON. "So much so, Sir, that the whole of life is but keeping away the thought of i...
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Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
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The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
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People say that a picture speaks a thousand words. With poetry, I can paint a picture, capture a moment, a smell, a scene in a handful of words.
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God only know what's in there, you know.
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Not lived; for life doth her great actions spell, By what was done and wrought...
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Though I am young and cannot tell Either what death or love is well,...
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He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity
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