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- He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a…
- The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking
- As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to…
- I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful; for not only…
- We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying…
- The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has given…
- He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the comparison of imagination…
- Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh without any fixed…
- The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to…
- No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.
- I know not why any one but a school boy in his declamation would whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by…
- I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
- Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of…
- Such is the constitution of man that labour may be styled its own reward; nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be considered…
- Advice is offensive, not because it lays us open to unexpected regret, or convicts us of any fault which had escaped our notice, but because…
- Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained
- 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…
- Among the lower classes of mankind there will be found very little desire of any other knowledge than what may contribute immediately to the relief…
- 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…
- I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is only…
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