It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.
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Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct
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He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and interest from the only companion with whom he has shared much good and evil. . .
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
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