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- A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
- One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a…
- We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any…
- A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. The throwing…
- We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
- There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
- The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of…
- Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is…
- Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly…
- When one can do better than everyone else in the same walk, one does not make any very painful exertions to outdo oneself. The progress…
- Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for - they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose,…
- As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become…
- We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. This is the reason why it is so difficult…
- A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.
- No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.
- The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own prejudices,…
- We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them;…
- The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way ... an uncomfortable mind in an…
- The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest…
- One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, it is more stood upon…
- When we hear complaints of the wretchedness or vanity of human life, the proper answer to them would be that there is hardly any one…
- Any woman may act the part of a coquette successfully who has the reputation without the scruples of modesty. If a woman passes the bounds…
- Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such…
- People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
- It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
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