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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we…
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope…
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To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that…
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as…
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The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in…
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Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies…
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but…
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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
— Aristotle
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No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with…
— Samuel Johnson
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There are two distinct sorts of what we call bashfulness; this, the awkwardness of a booby, which a few steps into the…
— Henry Mackenzie
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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
— Joseph Addison
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He, full of bashfulness and truth, loved much, hoped little, and desired naught.
— Torquato Tasso
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In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.
— Samuel Johnson
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Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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As to the human race. There are many pretty and winning things about the human race. It is perhaps the poorest of…
— Mark Twain
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