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| Men, by associating in large masses, as in camps and cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds, but weaken their morals; thus a retrocession in the one, is too often the price they pay for a refinement of the |
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| Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance |
| Moderation |
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| Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied. |
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| Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight |
| Liberty; Women |
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| Most men know what they hate, few know what they love. |
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| Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them |
| Words |
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| Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. |
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| Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man. |
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| My lowest days as a Christian [and There Were Low Ones--Seven Months Worth Of Them In Prison, To Be Exact] have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House. |
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| Mystery is not profoundness |
| Mystery |
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| Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun |
| Mystery |
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| Neutrality is no favorite with Providence, for we are so formed that it is scarcely possible for us to stand neuter in our hearts, although we may deem it prudent to appear so in our actions |
| Providence |
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| Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried. |
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| Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books |
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| No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health |
| Business; Relationships |
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| No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with unlimited power. |
| Trust |
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| No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful |
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| No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole race of heroes who have drenched the earth with blood and whose deeds have been handed down with a precision proportionate only |
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| None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. |
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| None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation |
| Secrets |
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