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- We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we…
- In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
- Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things that…
- Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.
- In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in…
- The policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance, which ... can make that iron hot by…
- With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce…
- Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence…
- Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.
- Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with…
- It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has…
- There is no cruelty so inexorable and unrelenting as that which proceeds from a bigoted and presumptuous supposition of doing service to God. The victim…
- The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.
- That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body; and the union will have…
- In most quarrels there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced without a flint,…
- As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither execute nor foresee,…
- To be continually subject to the breath of slander, will tarnish the purest virtue, as a constant exposure to the atmosphere will obscure the brightness…
- There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth…
- Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage…
- Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when…
- We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long,…
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