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Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.



Hope is itself a species of happiness and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.



Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.



Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.



Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.



Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it



Where there is no difficulty there is no praise



Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.



Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt



The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.



Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable and others extremely difficult.



A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected.



This is one of the disadvantages of wine: it makes a man mistake words for thought.



Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with too much dejection



Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained







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