Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
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A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.
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I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up
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