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- A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels,…
- Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable.
- Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.
- The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and waste their lives…
- Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of…
- 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…
- 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…
- Love is only one of many passions.
- Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
- So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
- Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our…
- Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
- A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at…
- To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise...Let…
- The longer we live, and the more we think, the higher value we learn to put on the friendship and tenderness of parents and friends.…
- Men hate more steadily than they love; and if I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of…
- Dr Blair . . . asked . . . whether he thought any man of a modern age could have written such poems [Ossian] .…
- It is no less a proof of eminence to have many enemies than many friends
- The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning
- Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; forit supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics…
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- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
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- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
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- In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources… — Julian Assange
- The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely… — Rowan Atkinson
- But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness… — Rowan Atkinson
- I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate. — Rowan Atkinson