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- Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other,…
- Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation of pleasure draws…
- Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to…
- Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of…
- 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…
- The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never…
- 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.
- Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
- I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
- When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
- Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
- I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
- Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there…
- [C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
- The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day…
- A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.
- You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally…
- Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with something…
- To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise...Let…
- A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or…
- 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…
- 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…
- To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not be otherwise than blind, because their preference was made without,…
- If you would shut up any man with any woman, so as to make them derive their whole pleasure from each other, they would inevitably…
- Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other
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