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"The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice."
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"The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them."
"Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray."
"It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess."
"Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us."
"I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time."
"Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."
"I am a fan of overdoing something, but not running it into the ground. They are complete opposites with only a fine line separating them."
"To live long it is necessary to live slowly."
"As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers."
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"Most critics, fond of subservient artstill make the whole depend upon a part.They talk of principles, but notions prizeAnd all to one loved folly sacrifice."
"Let Sporus tremble - "What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk?Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel?Who breaks a Butterfly upon a Wheel?"Yet let me flap this Bug with gilded wings,This painted Child of Dirt that stinks and stings; Whose Buzz the Witty and the Fair annoys,Yet Wit ne'er tastes, and Beauty ne'er enjoys."
"Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground."
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