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- As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
- Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.
- There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
- The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
- Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them in particular, what we compare them…
- The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect may safely be…
- The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.
- As many suffer from too much as too little.
- What a position of transcendent horror must that be, where the perpetrator of a great crime, till then a stranger to positive guilt, finds himself…
- Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert it; a fancied…
- To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of error in the world more owing than to our habit of adopting conclusions from insufficiently established data.…
- We absolve a friend from gratitude when we remind him of a favor.
- Perhaps the heroic element in our natures is exhibited to the best advantage, not in going from success to success, and so on through a…
- The cause of laziness is physiological; it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied as a sufferer…
- Life being full of harsh realities, we seek relief from them in a variety of pleasing delusions.
- Our opinions partake, more or less, of the prejudices of our class, party, or sect. We are all largely pledged, through interest, affection, or passion,…
- There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that…
- It is so natural for us to consider our presence as indispensable in the world, so long as we have much to do in it,…
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