In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as Pride. Disguise it$$$ struggle with it$$$ beat it down$$$ stifle it$$$ mortify
I grew convinc'd that truth$$$ sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life;
There are no gains without pains.
Human felicity is produc'd not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen$$$ as by little advantages that occur every day.
How much more than necessary do we spend in sleep$$$ forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry$$$ and that there will be sleeping enough in the
He wish'd to please everybody; and$$$ having little to give$$$ he gave expectations.
There was great difference between persons and$$$ discretion did not always accompany years nor was youth always with out it.
A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself
A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty$$$ perhaps thro' fear of being thought to have but little.
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature$$$ since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.