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There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.

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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

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What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.

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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.

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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.

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Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.

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The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.

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So upright Quakers please both man and God.

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Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky; Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.

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Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.

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With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought.

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Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.

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Hope springs eternal.

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Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?

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Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.

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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?

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In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.

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Wit and judgment often are at strife.

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