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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

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There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.

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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

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All bravery stands upon comparisons.

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The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

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If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

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But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

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Reading maketh a full man.

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For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

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God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.

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The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse.

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O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.

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For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

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Praise is the reflection of virtue.

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Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?

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Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God

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I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance.

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