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- Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books, as a race…
- I am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose…
- To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide…
- Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
- I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is only…
- Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which…
- To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he whose…
- The truth is that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only…
- Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
- We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures
- From ignorance our comfort flows, the only wretched are the wise
- The eye of the mind, like that of the body, can only extend its view to new objects, by losing sight of those which are…
- 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…
- Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.
- 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;…
- 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…
- All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails…
- Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
- 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…
- Every one should consider himself as intrusted not only with his own conduct, but with that of others; and as accountable, not only for the…
- 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…
- A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where…
- Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm…
- 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…
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