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He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.
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Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.
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We should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.
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Every ear is tickled with the sweet music of applause.
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The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for…
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad…
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If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar…
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No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration…
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That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must…
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Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous,…
— Alan Ball
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If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
— Louis D. Brandeis
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We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
— Geoffrey Chaucer
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If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the…
— Aristotle
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We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Since we desire the true happiness that is brought about by a calm mind, and such peace of mind arises only from…
— Dalai Lama
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The heart of the matter is that there is nothing the matter with our hearts. It is not love that is to…
— Gay Hendricks
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We label judges with having the meanest motives, and yet we desire that our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
— Adrienne Rich
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There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.
— John Churton Collins
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