Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.
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If such be love, I dare not say.Walter Savage Landor
In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship in the hours of gladness and conviviality, what is our want It is friendship. When the heart overflows with gratitude, or with any other sweet or sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it would give utterance A friend.
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There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.
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We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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