'We are always doing', says he, 'something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us.

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Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.

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Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.

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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.

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