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Futurity is the proper abode of hope and fear, with all their train and progeny of subordinate apprehensions and desires.
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The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears; and to all these, the consideration of mortality is a certain and adequate remedy.
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By this practice he may obtain the solitude of adversity without its melancholy, its instructions without its censures, and its sensibility without its perturbations.
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Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings, because they are his own.
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There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.
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An habitual sadness seizes upon the soul, and the faculties are chained to a single object, which can never be contemplated but with hopeless uneasiness.
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To disappoint a friend is unpleasing; and he that forms expectations like yours, must be disappointed.