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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
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The post of honor is a private station.
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.
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Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.
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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
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A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
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Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know, and all of heaven we have below.
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The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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