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I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession



Your aspirations are your possibilities.



Our aspirations are our possibilities.



To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength



Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.



Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.



Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw be



Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change; the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again



No mind is much employed upon the present: recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments



No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.



None are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.



Such is the state of life that none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing. When we have made it, the next wish is to change again.



The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.



But scarce observed, the knowing and the bold Fall in the general massacre of gold; Wide-wasting pest! that rages unconfined, And crowds with crimes the records of mankind; For gold his sword the hireling ruffian draws,



A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.







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