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- Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.
- Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.
- Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.
- Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by…
- Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a…
- That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind;…
- Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
- I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful; for not only…
- Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for ever unheeded in the mighty…
- The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can possess. Every man…
- He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every nation has something peculiar…
- Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
- Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other part of learning,…
- In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is…
- Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a…
- I know not why any one but a school boy in his declamation would whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by…
- The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the application of its laws to…
- That man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while.…
- I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things are the sons…
- He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and…
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