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An accomplished mathematician, i. e. a most wretched orator.

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Slander is a complication, a comprisal and sum of all wickedness.

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Industry has annexed thereto the fairest fruits and the richest rewards.

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Men should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of their own.

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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.

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Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness.

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It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.

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Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.

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The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.

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Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy.

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Generosity is in nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities.

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Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor.

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Mathematics — the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.

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Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.

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The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven.

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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

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He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.

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Nothing has wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal.

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If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.

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Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it; and the farther on we go, the more we have to come back.

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Mr Newton, a fellow of our College, and very young, being but the second year master of arts; but of an extraordinary genius and proficiency.

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Because Mathematicians frequently make use of Time, they ought to have a distinct idea of the meaning of that Word, otherwise they are Quacks.

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None are too wise to be mistaken, but few are so wisely just as to acknowledge and correct their mistakes, and especially the mistakes of prejudice.

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Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce.

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The fruits of the earth do not more obviously require labor and cultivation to prepare them for our use and subsistence than our faculties demand instruction.

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