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- The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as…
- The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who…
- Happiness has this essential difference from what is commonly called pleasure, that virtue forms its basis, and virtue being the offspring of reason, may be…
- A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and…
- I ought not to doubt the steadiness of your affection. Yet such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion,…
- Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its…
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