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... truth ... carries authority with it; while falsehood and lies skulk under a load of words, without having the power of persuasion; the more they attempt to show themselves, the more they are entangled.

war often breaks out when there is the most talk of peace.

We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.

We like so much to talk of ourselves that we are never weary of those private interviews with a lover during the course of whole years, and for the same reason the devout like to spend much time with their confessor; it is the pleasure of talking of themselves, even though it be to talk ill.

We must always live in hope; without that consolation there would be no living.

Were it not for the amusement of our books, we should be moped to death for want of occupation. It rains incessantly. ... we tickle ourselves in order to laugh; to so low an ebb are we reduced.

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

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

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