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- No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.
- Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always in our power.…
- I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful; for not only…
- It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his own miseries without…
- The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended…
- Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for ever unheeded in the mighty…
- Faults and defects every work of man must have.
- No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance, or to extinguish the desire of fond…
- We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying…
- The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can possess. Every man…
- The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has given…
- Men, however distinguished by external accidents or intrinsick qualities, have all the same wants, the same pains, and, as far as the senses are consulted,…
- It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of the most studious…
- Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
- Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.
- Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability…
- If a man has a science to learn he must regularly and resolutely advance.
- There prevails among men of letters, an opinion, that all appearance of science is particularly hateful to Women; and that therefore whoever desires to be…
- In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is…
- Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a…
- Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate.
- These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition adds…
- Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant,…
- Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who…
- I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are…
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