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" No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring. "

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" Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy. "

" He who praises everybody, praises nobody. "

" A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. "

" Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again. "

" The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression. "

" Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy. "

" There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman. "

" What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more. "

" It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see. "

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

" What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. "

" Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. "

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

" To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed. "

" Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed. "

" The true art of memory is the art of attention. "

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

" Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us. "

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

" Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own. "

" 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. "

" It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached. "

" A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. "

" The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. "

" The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning. "

" Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others. "

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

" It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. "

" Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself. "

" One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. "