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- If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
- A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing broken ties. Meet again you…
- What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our…
- More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering…
- Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to believe. And of…
- Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than…
- There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from hell-Art and Science.…
- The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.
- The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine mission.
- What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They…
- It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed the most sordid…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
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