“Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.”
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
