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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations – wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
Beauty is the promise of happiness.