“So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.”
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Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.
Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
