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We live in a world beset on all sides with mysteries and riddles—and so 'tis no matter—else it seems strange, that Nature, who makes every...
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Upon looking back from the end of the last chapter and surveying the texture of what has been wrote, it is necessary, that upon this page and ...
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True Shandeism, think what you will against it, opens the heart and lungs, and like all those affections which partake of its nature, it force...
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'Tis to rebuke a vicious taste which has crept into thousands besides herself,—of reading straight forwards, more in quest of the adventures...
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To have the fear of God before our eyes, and, in our mutual dealings with each other, to govern our actions by the eternal measures of right a...
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There have been no sects in the christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from ...
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The proper education of poor children [is] the ground-work of almost every other kind of charity.... Without this foundation first laid, how m...
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The duce of any other rule have I to govern myself by in this affair—and if I had one ... I would twist it and tear it to pieces, and throw ...
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The circumstances with which every thing in this world is begirt, give every thing in this world its size and shape;—and by tightening it, o...
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So that if you would form a just judgment of what is of infinite importance to you not to be misled in,—namely, in what degree of real merit...
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—My brother Toby, quoth she, is going to be married to Mrs. Wadman. 'Then he will never,' quoth my father, 'be able to lie diagonally in his...
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Let the torpid Monk seek heaven comfortless and alone—GOD speed him! For my own part, I fear, I should never so find the way: let me be wise...
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If the heart beguiles itself in its choice [of a wife], and imagination will give excellencies which are not the portion of flesh and blood:Mw...
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I will not argue the matter: Time wastes too fast: every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity Life follows my pen; the days and hours of...
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I know not whether the remark is to our honour or otherwise, that lessons of wisdom have never such power over us, as when they are wrought in...
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How many thousands of [lives] are there every year that comes cast away, (in all civilized countries at least)—and consider'd as nothing but...
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God, for wise reasons, has made our affairs in this world, almost as fickle and capricious as ourselves.—Pain and pleasure, like light and d...
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Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,—and has wit in it, and instruction too,—if we can but find it out.
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But the desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.... ——Endless is the Search of Tru...
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Alack-o-day, replied the corporal ... your honour knows I have neither wife or child—I can have no sorrows in this world.
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[I am] firmly persuaded that every time a man smiles,—but much more so, when he laughs, that it adds something to this Fragment of life.
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Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
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People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.
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So long as a man rides his Hobby-Horse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him -- pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?
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