Your minds may now be likened to a garden, which will, if neglected, yield only weeds and thistles; but, if cultivated, will produce the most beautiful flowers, and the most delicious fruits.
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Nothing seems to me so likely to make people unhappy in themselves and at variance with others as the habit of killing time.
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What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us.
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Pleasures take to themselves wings and fly away; true knowledge remains forever.
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No blessing, no good, can follow in the path trodden by slavery.
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My wish is to be known only thru my work.
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