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• Faults and defects every work of man must have.
• No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance, or to extinguish the desire of fond…
• We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying…
• The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can possess. Every man…
• The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has given…
• It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of the most studious…
• Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.
• If a man has a science to learn he must regularly and resolutely advance.
• In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is…
• Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a…
• Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate.
• I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are…
• That man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while.…
• Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both…
• A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman.
• Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of…
• Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.
• Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did…
• A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.
• His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.
• It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives…
• He that is warm for truth, and fearless in its defense, performs one of the duties of a good man; he strenghtens his own conviction,…
• Such is the constitution of man that labour may be styled its own reward; nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be considered…
• It is not indeed certain, that the most refined caution will find a proper time for bringing a man to the knowledge of his own…
• Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.

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