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- Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors,…
- Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a mob.
- He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures.
- 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…
- Shakespeare never had six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion.
- The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
- Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
- Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
- It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
- A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
- A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
- So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
- There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to…
- All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse,…
- The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day…
- 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…
- A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.
- You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally…
- Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with something…
- 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…
- 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.
- Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining…
- When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity,…
- In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
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