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- It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects…
- Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!
- A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
- I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
- There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
- There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
- Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
- Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none…
- Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
- A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails…
- 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…
- It is impossible for us, who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality, or in any art or…
- When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours…
- A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of; it heightens…
- There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely…
- There is not a more pleasante exercise of the mind than gratitude.
- The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason,…
- This not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.
- I think a Person who is thus terrified with the Imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contrary to the Reports…
- No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
- A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.
- Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.
- Beauty commonly produces love, but cleanliness preserves it. Age itself is not unamiable while it is preserved clean and unsullied; like a piece of metal…
- Our forefathers looked upon nature with more reverence and horror, before the world was enlightened by learning and philosophy, and loved to astonish themselves with…
- Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.
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- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle