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- Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
- If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
- What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do…
- Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
- Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
- Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
- Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
- There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.
- Jesters do often prove prophets.
- There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
- There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
- The post of honour is a private station.
- The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
- The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
- There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
- We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
- What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
- With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.
- My voice is still for war.
- Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
- A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
- Facts are plain spoken; hopes and figures are its aversion.
- Colors speak all languages.
- Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them.
- Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.
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