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" Language is the dress of thought. "

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" Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed. "

" Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use. "

" Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. "

" He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. "

" The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking. "

" From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life. "

" Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. "

" Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return. "

" We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting. "

" I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney. "

" All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. "

" Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home. "

" Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed. "

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" The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. "

" Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. "

" When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. "

" Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. "

Self-Confidence

" Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him. "

" You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company. "

" A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself. "

" Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives. "

" So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something. "

" At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest. "

" Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. "

" Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others. "

" I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just. "