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- To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
- I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
- Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
- Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none…
- The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter…
- If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth,…
- It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of…
- Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
- A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails…
- Life is not long enough for a coquette to play all her tricks in.
- There is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages, as that which consists in a jingle…
- Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with…
- Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
- Colors speak all languages.
- All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
- A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of; it heightens…
- Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with a design to be each other's mutual comfort and entertainment have, in…
- If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.
- Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
- Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant; a marriage of interest, easy; and a marriage where both…
- I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck. A good character, good habits…
- Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all our unhappiness.
- In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, Hast so much wit and mirth and spleen about thee,…
- A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.…
- It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally…
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- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle