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In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other’s good, and melt at other’s woe.
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.
To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it.
But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.
Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.