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Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.