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A fool must now and then be right, by chance.
[ Chance ]
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
[ Life and Living ]
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
[ Pride ]
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
[ Absence ]
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
[ Rest ]
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
[ Absence ]
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Fanaticism soberly defined, is the false fire of an over heated mind.
[ Fanatics and Fanaticism ]
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
[ Glory ]
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God made the country and man made the town.
[ Nations ]
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How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
[ Experts ]
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
[ Slavery ]
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
[ Profanity ]
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
[ Knowledge ]
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
[ Compassion ]
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
[ Nature ]
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No one was ever scolded out of their sins.
[ Sin ]
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No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.
[ Enthusiasm ]
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O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
[ Applause ]
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Once more I would adopt the graver style -- a teacher should be sparing of his smile.
[ Teachers and Teaching ]
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Religion! what treasure untold resides in that heavenly word!
[ Religion ]
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Remorse begets reform.
[ Remorse ]
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
[ Regret ]
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
[ Devil ]
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The darkest day, If you live till tomorrow will have past away.
[ Hope ]
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
[ Conscience ]
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The life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
[ Idleness ]
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The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.
[ Churches ]
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The path of sorrow and that path alone, leads to a land where sorrow is unknown.
[ Sorrow ]
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
[ Purpose ]
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Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavor.
[ Variety ]
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