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A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.
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Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.
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It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.
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The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.
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This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
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Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.
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Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.
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That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.
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A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.
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The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application.
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Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.
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The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
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