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I did not think he ought to be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else. Another charge was, that he did not love clean linen; and I have no passion for it.
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Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.
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We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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The love of retirement has, in all ages, adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius.
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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
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Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.
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Among the calamities of war may be jointly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages.
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Everybody loves to have things which please the palate put in their way, without trouble or preparation.
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Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
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The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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Born:
September 18, 1709
Died:
December 13, 1784
(aged 75)
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