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not feel the force-of words, because he is subdued ‘by 
the force of pafsion. 
I will leave my enemy to be punifhed by the 
most painful of all reflections, ‘‘ the remembrance of 
a crime perpretated in vain.” 
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The vain man who despises, or the proud man who 
threatens the world, is always ridiculous; for the. 
world can easily go on without him, and in a short 
* time will cease to mifs him.} 
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Some.men who are good companions abroad, are 
more serious at home than their families could at 
all times wifh ; as if they exhausted upon strangers 
their whole stock of good humour. 
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Let both sexes consider the uncertainty of happi- 
nefs. 
To cherifh the vain hope of uninterrupted feli- 
city, is as absurd as it is to expect unerring perfec- 
tion from any child of mortality. 
Steadily to adhere to the laudable ambition of ac- 
quiring happinefs by virtue, is the only receipe ever 
yet discovered, that could reconcile us to our inse- 
parable connection with affliction: The fharpnefs of 
whose arrows are easily repelled, when not pointed 
with guilt. 
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True is the observation, that however fair the 
prospect may for a time appear, affliction, that cer- 
tain portion of man, will too often intercept our 
most flattering views.- 
