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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. 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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But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.

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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.

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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

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Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

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The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

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Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

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Don't set your wit against a child.

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He was a bold man that first eat on oyster.

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May you live every day of your life.

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Books, the children of the brain.

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We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

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So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.

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Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

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Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

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What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.

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Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

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