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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out, Well done! As loud as he could bawl.

No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.

O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?

The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.

It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

God made the country, and man made the town.

O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.

A fool must now and then be right, by chance.

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