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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.



Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.



Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.



If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling.



Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!



Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!



Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.



Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to cure her of it.



Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false.



Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.



A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.



Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.



Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and,



The union of the Word and Mind produces that mystery which is called life...Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for their-in lies the secret of mortality.



There are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense, than in the most abstruse and profound tract of school divinity.








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