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- Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in…
- A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
- A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
- 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…
- A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
- Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his…
- An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
- That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
- Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
- To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
- The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
- Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very…
- Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
- The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
- To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
- When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is…
- Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in…
- If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth,…
- Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore…
- It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of…
- There is nothing that more betrays a base ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret stabs to a man's reputation. Lampoons and satires that are…
- He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.
- When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many…
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