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I am persuaded that he who is capable of being a bitter enemy can never possess the necessary virtues that constitute a true friend. - [Enemies] I look upon enthusiasm in all other points but that of religion to be a very necessary turn of mind; as, indeed, it is a vein which nature seems to have marked with more or less strength in the tempers of most men. - [Earnestness] To complain that life has no joys while there is a single creature whom we can relieve by our bounty, assist by our counsels or enliven by our presence, is to lament the loss of that which we possess, and is just as irrational as to die of thirst with the cup in our hands. - [Charity]
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