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- Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to go to excess…
- Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts…
- Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and delight those unbodied…
- No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn…
- All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not. In…
- ...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his…
- The roads of science are narrow, so that they who travel them, must wither follow or meet one another...
- Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his having.
- Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to…
- That the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily created; every man,…
- When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying…
- It is better a man should be abused than forgotten.
- It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices…
- Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of…
- Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied.
- The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man.
- A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time, but they will…
- Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler.
- Nothing is more common than to find men, whose works are now totally neglected, mentioned with praises by their contemporaries as the oracles of their…
- As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.
- Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a mob.
- A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected.
- The first years of man must make provision for the last.
- Everybody knows worse of himself than he knows of other men.
- The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak…
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