True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end, although it shifts with every variation of the weather cock, and assumes 10 different positions in a day.
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Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live
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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
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