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- Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of civil or religious…
- 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…
- The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
- By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior.
- 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…
- From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The…
- The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other
- If martyrdom is now on the decline, it is not because martyrs are less zealous, but because martyr-mongers are more wise. The light of intellect…
- There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.
- Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer; for it prevents those disorders which other remedies sometimes cure, but sometimes confirm.
- He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions with a decided…
- Nobility is a river that sets with a constant and undeviating current, directly into the great Pacific Ocean of Time; but, unlike all other rivers,…
- There is not a little generalship and stratagem required in the managing and marshalling of our pleasures, so that each shall not mutually encroach to…
- There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or…
- All wars of interference, arising from an officious intrusion into the concerns of other states; all wars of ambition, carried on for the purposes of…
- Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root. CHARLES…
- The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly ruined. He adds his soul to every other loss, and by the act…
- There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is…
- He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
- The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most…
- Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage…
- The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own.
- In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the…
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- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
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