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"'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems."
"You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad."
"I don't believe man is a woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is."
"Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."
"It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer."
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"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."
"People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy."
"Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves."
"It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out."
"Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!"
"I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor."
"People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy."
"I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life."
"A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one."
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