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Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.
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Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.
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Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.
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Sorrow is the rust of the soul and activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.
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In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
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The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
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He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
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