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Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.
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But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.
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Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
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God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
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Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.
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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
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Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.
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I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
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An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.
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Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
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Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.
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Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.
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Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
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Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
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In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
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So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.
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I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
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I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.
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When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.
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