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" The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down. "

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

" Disease generally begins that equality which death completes. "

" To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self. "

" The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities. "

" It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time. "

" The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. "

" Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. "

" It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability. "

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

" Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it. "

" He who praises everybody, praises nobody. "

" No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money. "

" Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. "

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

" Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see. "

" A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. "

" Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. "

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

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

" By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show. "

" To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. "

" A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. "

" We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. "

" When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped. "

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

" Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger. "

" It is better to live rich than to die rich. "