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- We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest,…
- Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied.
- The imitator treads a beaten walk, and with all his diligence can only find a few flowers or branches untouched by his predecessor, the refuse…
- All envy is proportionate to desire.
- I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession.
- Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than…
- I believe marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the lord chancellor, upon a due…
- Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
- Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
- Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
- When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
- Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
- To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every…
- Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
- Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know…
- I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
- All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
- Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
- Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
- That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.
- All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse,…
- It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we…
- What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred…
- [C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
- I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
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