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• Ah, what a grudge I owe physicians! what mummery is their art!

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  Art, Doctors, Physicians

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• Nothing is so capable of overturning a good intention as to show a distrust of it; to be suspected for an enemy, is often sufficient to make a person become one.

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  Enemy, Good Intentions, Distrust

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• Death makes us all equal.

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  Equal

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• I am persuaded that the greater part of our complaints arise from want of exercise.

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  Fitness, Exercise, Want

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• It is day by day that we go forward; today we are as we were yesterday and tomorrow we shall be like ourselves today. So we go on without being aware of it, and this is one of the miracles of Providence that I so love.

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  Yesterday, Miracle, Goes On

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• The heart has no wrinkles.

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  Love, Birthday, Heart

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• There is no one who does not represent a danger to someone.

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  Doe, Danger

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• Racine will pass away like the taste for coffee.

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  Coffee, Passing Away, Taste

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• winter is past, and we have a prospect of spring that is superior to spring itself.

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  Spring, Winter, Past

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• Faith creates the virtues in which it believes.

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  Faith, Believe, Virtue

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• . . . this life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we desire, we are only so much the nearer losing it; and when at a distance from it, we live in expectation of enjoying it again.

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  Pain, Distance, Evil

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• The world has no long injustices.

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  Long, World, Injustice

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• if I inflict wounds, I heal them.

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  Repentance, Heal, Ifs

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• We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.

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  People, Abuse, Motive

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• Friendships take work. Use disagreements as opportunity to come out better on the other side

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  Opportunity, Use, Sides

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• There is nothing so lovely as to be beautiful. Beauty is a gift of God and we should cherish it as such.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Lovely

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• I do not like to employ secretaries that have more wit than myself. I am afraid to make them write all my nonsense.

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  Writing, Nonsense, Wit

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• In all nations truth is the most sublime, the most simple, the most difficult, and yet the most natural thing.

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  Truth, Simple, Sublime

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• Long life will sometimes obscure the star of fame.

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  Stars, Long, Sometimes

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• We like no noise unless we make it ourselves.

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  Noise

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• It is freezing fit to split a stone.

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  Winter, Splits, Stones

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• When we reckon without Providence, we must frequently reckon twice.

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  God, Providence

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• . . .the most astonishing, the most surprising, the most marvelous, the most miraculous. . . the greatest, the least, the rarest, the most common, the most public, the most private till today. . . I cannot bring myself to tell you: guess what it is.

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  Today, Common, Surprising

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