As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not. — Samuel Laman Blanchard Belief Copy Share Image
Of all the many and (thanks to a free press) the ever-multiplying blessings attendant upon the "glorious constitution" of literature, not the… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Blessing Copy Share Image
For more than twenty years he [Blanchard] toiled on through the most fatiguing paths of literary composition, mostly in periodicals, often anonymously;… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Chance Copy Share Image
How often does it happen that an obscure line finds its way into a periodical... is requoted in every book that comes… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Book Copy Share Image
Perhaps the author cited is one of those, who, shunning the practice of the world, have taught the world to shun return!… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Book Copy Share Image
So, in our wisdom and fair justice we go on - "Giving to dust that is a little gilt, More laud than… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Blessing Copy Share Image
For the author there is nothing but his pen, till that and life are worn to the stump: and then, with good… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Bed Copy Share Image
What if two negatives make an affirmative ...does it follow that two nobodies shall be some body? — Samuel Laman Blanchard Affirmative Copy Share Image
We feel bound to be punctual and conscientious with those we are indifferent about; while we can afford at any time, on… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Apartment Copy Share Image
The scarcity of truth is atoned for by the abundance of affidavits; if a rumor be impugned, its veracity is easily strengthened… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Abundance Copy Share Image
The ancient gentleman who has seen the world, who is profoundly experienced, and much too deep to be the dupe of an… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Admiring Copy Share Image
Give me to live with Love alone And let the world go dine and dress; For Love hath lowly haunts... If life's… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Alone in love Copy Share Image
Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem: There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground But holds some joy of silence… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Dream Copy Share Image
It is surely one of the strangest of our propensities to mark out those we love best for the worst usage; yet… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Ceremony Copy Share Image
When the error is universal, it is supposed to end. The adoption of the foundling establishes its consanguinity. — Samuel Laman Blanchard Adoption Copy Share Image
It seems to me that, with but slight reserve and modification, we may apply to our departed friend his own pathetic and… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Beautiful Copy Share Image
When a story has gone the grand circuit, and travels back to us uncontradicted, we may reasonably begin to relax in our… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Belief Copy Share Image
Shall we not rejoice then and revel in the glorious liberty of extract, and quote to the thousandth line? Shall we not… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Freedom Copy Share Image
Social and political life is a Society for the Diffusion of Mendacity . — Samuel Laman Blanchard Diffusion Copy Share Image
It is an odd mode of diminishing one's own weakness to ask a friend to lend us the equal force of his. — Samuel Laman Blanchard Asks Copy Share Image
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