We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.
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I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.Laurence Sterne
I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
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Whenever a man talks loudly against religion - Always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions which have got the better of his creed.
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Men tire themselves in the pursuit of sleep.
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I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
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In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them.
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