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/ page 345 of 1205 /Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
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Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
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Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
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We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world.
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In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
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Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.
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Night is the mother of counsels.
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A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt.
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He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.
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The resolved mind hath no cares.
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In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
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Never was a miser a brave soul.
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One sword keeps another in the sheath.
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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.
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None knows the weight of another's burden.
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Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
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War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
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The eyes have one language everywhere.
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