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The post of honor is a private station.
[ Honor ]
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Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
[ Honor ]
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Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.
[ Prejudice ]
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
[ Contentment ]
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
[ Perfection ]
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What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
[ Patriotism ]
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
[ Animals ]
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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
[ Confidence ]
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Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
[ Pride ]
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.
[ Music ]
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Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
[ Music ]
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A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.
[ Conscience ]
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
[ Solitude ]
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Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.
[ Argument ]
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The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
[ Pleasure ]
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The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
[ Parents ]
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Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
[ Humor ]
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