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All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it.
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
Exercise is labor without weariness.
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.