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"There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures."

"We carry within us the wonders we seek without us."

"A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender."

"But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity."

"Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous."

"Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner."

"Death is the cure for all diseases."

"Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave."

"Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death."

"We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases."

"Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks."

"It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike."

"To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy."

"Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them."

"Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion."

"All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God."
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"As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason."

"Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good."

"Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles."

"I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition."

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