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- In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.
- It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives…
- How small of all that human hearts endure/That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
- That there is something in advice very useful and salutary, seems to be equally confessed on all hands; since even those that reject it, allow…
- The desire of advising has a very extensive prevalence; and, since advice cannot be given but to those that will hear it, a patient listener…
- Such is the state of every age, every sex, and every condition: all have their cares, either from nature or from folly; and whoever, therefore,…
- Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books, as a race…
- All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and an appeal from…
- If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good…
- Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength of the contemplative…
- Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.
- All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
- I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you…
- All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.
- All industry must be excited by hope.
- How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned,…
- All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.
- A coxcomb is ugly all over with the effectation of a fine gentleman.
- They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions…
- It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and…
- Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a…
- The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage others, and some…
- All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails…
- From all our observations we may collect with certainty, that misery is the lot of man, but cannot discover in what particular condition it will…
- Lichfield, England. Swallows certainly sleep all winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap throw…
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