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Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

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Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

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Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!

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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

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Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

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Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

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I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: May 1st, 1672

Died: June 17th, 1719

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