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- Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie…
- Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered, and…
- Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.
- Composition is for the most part an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and…
- He that floats lazily down the stream, in pursuit of something borne along by the same current, will find himself indeed moved forward; but unless…
- Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have…
- Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.
- The truth is that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only…
- Those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time…
- From ignorance our comfort flows, the only wretched are the wise
- The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power…
- I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.
- By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences, are avoided. An…
- Every government is perpetually degenerating towards corruption, from which it must be rescued at certain periods by the resuscitation of its first principles, and the…
- Men go to sea, before they know the unhappiness of that way of life; and when they have come to know it, they cannot escape…
- The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much kindness, there is…
- From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
- From all our observations we may collect with certainty, that misery is the lot of man, but cannot discover in what particular condition it will…
- The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
- Frequent discontent must proceed from frequent hardships.
- Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for…
- I do not wonder that, where the monastick life is permitted, every order finds votaries, and every monastery inhabitants. Men will submit to any rule,…
- You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do; but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow Richardson, on the…
- Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
- To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity,…
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