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- Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common…
- There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
- An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with…
- Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
- Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot…
- Music raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions: it strengthens and advances praise into rapture.
- The Gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength, and throw our into practice virtues that…
- It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and…
- If gratitude, when exerted towards another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the soul into rapture…
- It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally…
- When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to…
- When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.
- The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.
- Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big…
- Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often…
- An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, as a deification inverted. When a man…
- Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into…
- The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment.
- Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept…
- When an old Woman begins to doat [sic], and grow chargeable to a Parish, she is generally turned into a Witch,and fills the whole Country…
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