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"Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom."
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"The best way to easily identify a counterfeit currency is to have a full exposure to the original currency. If you don't know your true vision, any satanic vision can cross your way and you might not know it."
"It is hard to befool a fool who has already been fooled so many times."
"A mind that tastes the grief obtains a good chance to travel to the Land of Wisdom!"
"Troubles teaches us what we fail to learn."
"Troubles teaches us what we must know."
"We learn from every experience to be wise."
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"'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth."
"We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness."
"For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being."
"To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself."
"Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best."
"Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds."
"The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't."
"Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?"
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