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As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.



Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent



Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed.



All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.



I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.



No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.



No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.



Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.



Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.



Words are but the signs of ideas.



The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence



Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases



Affectation is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and safety, be known to want. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy; affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly



Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.



Your aspirations are your possibilities.







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