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- Let us take a patriot, where we can meet him; and, that we may not flatter ourselves by false appearances, distinguish those marks which are…
- Exercise cannot secure us from that dissolution to which we are decreed; but while the soul and body continue united, it can make the association…
- No wise man will go to live in the country, unless he has something to do which can be better done in the country. For…
- Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle; for the…
- There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of…
- There is no crime more infamous than the violation of truth. It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer than they believe…
- When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration of a word;…
- Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.
- It is indeed certain, that whoever attempts any common topick, will find unexpected coincidences of his thoughts with those of other writers; nor can the…
- I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty…
- The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last…
- If a man is in doubt whether it would be better for him to expose himself to martyrdom or not, he should not do it.…
- The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.
- Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and delight those unbodied…
- Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other,…
- Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation of pleasure draws…
- Persius has justly observed, that knowledge is nothing to him who is not known by others to possess it: to the scholar himself it is…
- Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized nations, proceeds often…
- Accustom your children constantly to this; if a thing happened at one window and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do…
- In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom.
- Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in…
- The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never…
- Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded…
- Every man, however hopeless his pretensions may appear, has some project by which he hopes to rise to reputation; some art by which he imagines…
- Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
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