“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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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
