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"There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow."
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"Life can only be live with grace, gratitude and generosity."
"That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this suffering which I have undergone and this virtue to which I have returned!"
"It is better to be kind than be impolite."
"Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it."
"Shunning evil is wisdom, loving God is the highest wisdom."
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"The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting to myrtles and to roses; filling the eye with awful pomp, and gratifying the mind with endless diversity."
"No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves."
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."
"It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached."
"There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex."
"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."
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