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- Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.
- Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.
- We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
- Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
- Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.
- We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a…
- Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so…
- For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
- Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is about to be sold, the other to be…
- If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all;…
- If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth; but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall…
- We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
- An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude
- Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the success of…
- Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
- Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling…
- No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. A weak man…
- Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.
- Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with…
- Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
- That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it…
- The science of legislation is like that of medicine in one respect: that it is far more easy to point out what will do harm…
- Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.
- No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole…
- As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real…
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