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- No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting…
- A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.
- The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction. Curiosity is the…
- Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength of the contemplative…
- Example is always more efficacious than precept.
- What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know if true, let…
- Composition is for the most part an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and…
- Men hate more steadily than they love.
- Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power and hapless love! Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more; Here find that calm…
- I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and…
- There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a perpetual equipoise, and…
- Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed; another regards not…
- Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.
- No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had
- The authour who imitates his predecessors only by furnishing himself with thoughts and elegances out of the same general magazine of literature, can with little…
- No writer can be fully convicted of imitation except there is a concurrence of more resemblance than can be imagined to have happened by chance;…
- The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage others, and some…
- To exact of every man who writes that he should say something new, would be to reduce authors to a small number; to oblige the…
- In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it; for no species…
- Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. The acknowledgment of those virtues on which conscience congratulates us is a tribute that…
- Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
- What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.
- The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only because it extends…
- The faults of a writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous, because the influence of his example is more extensive; and the interest of learning…
- To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity,…
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