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/ page 533 of 1205 /A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?
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There is nothing in this world constant, but inconsistancy.
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The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
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It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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The latter part of a man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.
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For the rest, Whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.
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Rebukes are easy from our betters, From men of quality and letters; But when low dunces will affront, What man alive can stand the brunt?
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Lord! I wonder what fool it was who invented kissing.
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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.
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A dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage.
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Love's over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy.
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In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.
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Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
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The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow. I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment.
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the Dawn has come.
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Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
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Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
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