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- They who have already enjoyed the crowds and noise of the great city, know their desire to return is little more than the restlessness of…
- There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of…
- As to precedents, to be sure they will increase in course of time; but the more precedents there are, the less occasion is there for…
- Virtue is uncommon in all the classes of humanity; and I suppose it will scarcely be imagined more frequent in a prison than in other…
- Surely nothing is more reproachful to a being endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air, and live in…
- Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words.
- Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of a larger meaning; he that…
- There is no crime more infamous than the violation of truth. It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer than they believe…
- Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more…
- How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river…
- That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.
- There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible.
- We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than…
- There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation.
- No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius.
- Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
- It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit, or analogy supply;…
- Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other,…
- The specualtist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows…
- Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation of pleasure draws…
- To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to common intellects; and…
- Guilt has always its horrors and solicitudes; and, to make it yet more shameful and detestable, it is doomed often to stand in awe of…
- Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than…
- 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…
- A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient…
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