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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
Conspiracies no sooner should be formed Than executed.
Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
Better to die ten thousand deaths, Than wound my honour.
There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
As Vivacity is the Gift of Women, Gravity is that of Men.
Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.
Facts are plain spoken; hopes and figures are its aversion.
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.
An honest man, that is not quite sober, has nothing to fear.
A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature.
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind
My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.
There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
I have sent for you that you may see how a Christian may die.
Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind.
Guard thy heart on this weak side, where most our nature fails.
Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.
What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.
Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Life is not long enough for a coquette to play all her tricks in.
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.
Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.
What can be nobler than the idea it gives us of the Supreme Being?
There is not a more pleasante exercise of the mind than gratitude.
A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes.
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
Wine displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.
Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses.
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
It is folly to seek the approbation of any being besides the Supreme.
Nothing, says Longinus, can be great, the contempt of which is great.