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- It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity;…
- Let him that desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay…
- They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private…
- The uniform necessities of human nature produce in a great measure uniformity of life, and for part of the day make one place like another;…
- Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
- If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.
- When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves…
- When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints.
- How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned,…
- It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.
- Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures…
- They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions…
- Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing…
- You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot…
- 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…
- A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and…
- One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.
- That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.
- It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.
- Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable.
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