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Your aspirations are your possibilities.
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It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his…
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The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and…
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Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
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To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
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The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken…
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Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
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He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that…
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In all their jollity in this world, the wicked are but as a book fairly bound, which when it is opened is…
— Richard Sibbes
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Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity.
— John Milton
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I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
— Samuel Johnson
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Up then, fair phoenix bride, frustrate the sun; Thyself from thine affection Takest warmth enough, and from thine eye All lesser birds…
— John Donne
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Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil;…
— Benjamin Franklin
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I spend my jollity on stage, so there is less in my own life.
— Marcus Brigstocke
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Since a few minutes can turn the healthiest bodies into breathless carcasses, and put those very things which we had principally relied…
— Robert Boyle
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The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed withtalkative…
— Anthony Sampson
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