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- Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.
- One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a…
- No man can thoroughly master more than one art or science.
- It is well there is no one without fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to…
- Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.
- So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have…
- Shall I faint, now that I have poured out the spirit of my mind to the world, and treated many subjects with truth, with freedom,…
- A great mind is one that can forget or look beyond itself.
- One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature…
- Silence is one great art of conversation.
- When one can do better than everyone else in the same walk, one does not make any very painful exertions to outdo oneself. The progress…
- Believe all the good you can of everyone. Do not measure others by yourself. If they have advantages which you have not, let your liberality…
- Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.
- The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: the one thinks everything right that is French, the other…
- One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.
- The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is a solitary abstraction.…
- What I mean by living to one's-self is living in the world, as in it, not of it: it is as if no one know…
- Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.
- One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, it is more stood upon…
- Painting for a whole morning gives one as excellent an appetite for one's dinner, as old Abraham Tucker acquired for his by riding over Banstead…
- One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself.
- When we hear complaints of the wretchedness or vanity of human life, the proper answer to them would be that there is hardly any one…
- One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so; for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed.
- We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all the intolerance in…
- There is a feeling of Eternity in youth which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortals.
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