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Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.
The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.