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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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