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Social sorrow loses half its pain.
Life protracted is protracted woe.
To make dictionaries is dull work.
Gratitude is a species of justice.
Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace.
No man was ever great by imitation.
Misery and shame are nearly allied.
In the motive lies the good or ill.
Curiosity is the thirst of the soul.
The triumph of hope over experience.
All envy is proportionate to desire.
Exercise is labor without weariness.
To buried merit rise the tardy bust.
Most men are unwilling to be taught.
A fallible being will fail somewhere.
Riches seldom make their owners rich.
Politeness is fictitious benevolence.
All industry must be excited by hope.
Hope is necessary in every condition.
Reason and truth will prevail at last
To do nothing is in everyone's power.
Suspicion is most often useless pain.
To be prejudiced is always to be weak
The business of life is to go forward.
Languages are the pedigree of nations.
No one ever became great by imitation.
The future is bought with the present.
Misfortunes should always be expected.
Our aspirations are our possibilities.
Hope is itself a species of happiness.
Men hate more steadily than they love.
Every man is of importance to himself.
Nature never gives everything at once.
No man hates him at whom he can laugh.
It is our first duty to serve society.
Suspicion is very often a useless pain.
An exotic and irrational entertainment.
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
The future is purchased by the present.
He that never thinks can never be wise.
Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler.
In sovereignty there are no gradations.
The insolence of wealth will creep out.
To do something is in every man's power.
The great source of pleasure is variety.
My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
Your aspirations are your possibilities.
Judgment is forced upon us by experience
He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
The dangers gather as the treasures rise.