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Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.
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Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike,…
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We pick out a text here and there to make it serve our turn; whereas , if we take it all together,…
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Of all the actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all the actions of our…
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Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.
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While you are upon the earth, enjoy the good things that are here.
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You will want a book which contains not man's thoughts, but God's - not a book that may amuse you, but a…
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Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is.
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Most libels, and I have taken about 30 actions, take place at election time. It has not stuck because I am prepared…
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More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.
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Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives…
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I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hatethe corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial, and hypocritical Christianity of…
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