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Take short views of human life—not further than dinner or tea.
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The object of preaching is, constantly to remind mankind of what mankind are constantly forgetting; not to supply the defects of human intelligence, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.
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All great and extraordinary actions come from the heart. There are seasons in human affairs, when qualities fit enough to conduct the common business of life, are feeble and useless; and when men must trust to emotion, for that safety which reason at such times can never give.
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Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Born:
June 3, 1771
Died:
February 22, 1845
(aged 73)
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