As no roads are so rough as those that have just
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As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to
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The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before
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Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.
Much may be done in those little shreds and patch
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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of t
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Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires.
We hate some persons because we do not know them;
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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
He that has energy enough to root out a vice shou
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He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always a
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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness ar
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A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
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