We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.

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The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.

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The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

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People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.

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I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.

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In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

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If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.

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No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

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In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.

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If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.

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