With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

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Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

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Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

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To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

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Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

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Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

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'We are always doing', says he, 'something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us.

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The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.

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