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Greediness of getting more deprives... the enjoyment of what it had got.
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[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return…
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What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.
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...they have never affirm'd any thing, concerning the Cause, till the Trial was past: whereas, to do it before, is a most…
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Passion is the great mover and spring of the soul. When men’s passions are strongest, they may have great and noble effects;…
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Invention is an Heroic thing, and plac'd above the reach of a low, and vulgar Genius. It requires an active, a bold,…
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A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.
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All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want…
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Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation.
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One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious.
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But camels, though odious to view and endowed with the offensive spirit, did not enjoy the blessing of pachydermaty.
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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
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