There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.Samuel Johnson
Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.
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A man who is good enough to go to heaven, is good enough to be a clergyman.
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Knowledge always demands increase it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.
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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
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