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- Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.
- 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.
- We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
- Pity a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.
- Those that know the least of others think the highest of themselves.
- Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good.
- It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.
- Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.
- We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a…
- Wars of opinion, as they have been the most destructive, are also the most disgraceful of conflicts.
- There can be no Christianity where there is no charity
- We ask advice but we mean approbation.
- Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.
- The smiling daughter of the storm.
- Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.
- The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
- The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs.
- I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.
- He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.
- Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.
- It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
- If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.
- The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and…
- Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
- Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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