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Every character is in some respects uniform, and in others inconsistent; and it is only by the study both of the uniformity and inconsistency, and a comparison of them with each other, that the knowledge of man is acquired.

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Fire and people do in this agree,They both good servants, both ill masters be.

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Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be.

Genius

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Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error.

Comfort

Errors

Roots

Have you never seen a strange unconnected deformed representation of a figure, which seen in another point of view, became proportioned and agreeable? It is the picture of man.

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Strange

Views

How happy is it for us, that the admiration of others should depend so much more on their ignorance than our perfection!

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Ignorance

Perfection

How seldom is generosity perfect and pure! How often do men give because it throws a certain inferiority on those who receive, and superiority on themselves!

Generosity

Giving

Men

If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good.

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Blood

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If the human mind naturally produces noisome weeds, it also produces flowers and fruit; and … the best method to mend the soil in general, is for each of us to cultivate his own particular spot.

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Weed

If they who understand the utmost refinement of any art will enjoy the perfection of it in a manner superior to other men, will they not amply pay for that advantage in feeling more than other men the imperfection of it, which in the natural course of things must so much oftener fall in their way?

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Every character is in some respects uniform, and in others inconsistent; and it is only by the study both of the uniformity and inconsistency, and a comparison of them with each other, that the knowledge of man is acquired.

Fire and people do in this agree,They both good servants, both ill masters be.

Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be.

Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error.

Have you never seen a strange unconnected deformed representation of a figure, which seen in another point of view, became proportioned and agreeable? It is the picture of man.

How happy is it for us, that the admiration of others should depend so much more on their ignorance than our perfection!

How seldom is generosity perfect and pure! How often do men give because it throws a certain inferiority on those who receive, and superiority on themselves!

If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good.

If the human mind naturally produces noisome weeds, it also produces flowers and fruit; and … the best method to mend the soil in general, is for each of us to cultivate his own particular spot.

If they who understand the utmost refinement of any art will enjoy the perfection of it in a manner superior to other men, will they not amply pay for that advantage in feeling more than other men the imperfection of it, which in the natural course of things must so much oftener fall in their way?

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