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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

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Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

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

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our...

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

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

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

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

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

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

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

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