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Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.

— Jane Porter

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Imparting knowledge, is only lighting other men’s candle at our lamp, without depriving ourselves of any flame.

Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney; with Remarks (1807)

Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.

Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney; with Remarks (1807)

There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate.

Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney; with Remarks (1807)

Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle.

Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney; with Remarks (1807)

That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart.

Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney; with Remarks (1807)

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Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased — thus do we refute entropy.

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