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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines
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Fear is an instructor of great sagacity and the herald of all revolutions.
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfilments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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Thus even love, which is the deification of persons, must become more impersonal every day.
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Their once flaming regard is sobered by time in either breast, and losing in violence what it gains in extent, it becomes a thorough good understanding.
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Though slowly and with pain, the objects of the affections change, as the objects of thought do.