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- Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That…
- Life is barren enough surely with all her trappings; let us be therefore cautious of how we strip her.
- All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.
- Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.
- To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when…
- Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses…
- In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might…
- Of all kinds of credulity, the most obstinate is that of party-spirit; of men, who, being numbered, they know not why, in any party, resign…
- To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.
- In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
- I have all my life long been lying in bed till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that…
- Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.
- All theory is against free will; all experience is for it.
- You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired…
- All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
- In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
- Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other
- That man (Lord Lyttelton) sat down to write a book, to tell the world what the world had all his life been telling him
- I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world
- All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it
- It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his own miseries without…
- Praise is so pleasing to the mind of man that it is the original of almost all of our actions
- 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…
- In all pleasure hope is a considerable part
- Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses…
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