It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any effect other than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation
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Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.
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That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona.
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
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