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- To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
- Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.
- When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to…
- The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.
- Theory is worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must effect this without contradicting itself; therefore, the facts are sometimes…
- Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is…
- He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.
- The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor adjusting powers, and…
- It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing…
- The benevolent have the advantage of the envious, even in this present life; for the envious man is tormented not only by all the ill…
- When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things,…
- This world cannot explain its own difficulties without the assistance of another.
- When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application…
- He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool; since the most…
- 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.
- If you cannot avoid a quarrel with a blackguard, let your lawyer manage it, rather than yourself. No man sweeps his own chimney, but employs…
- Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our enemy.
- With respect to the authority of great names, it should be remembered that he alone deserves to have any weight and influence with posterity, who…
- Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom; therefore, when we are in doubt and puzzle…
- Princes rule the people, and their own passions rule Princes; but Providence can over-rule the whole, and draw the instruments of his inscrutable purposes from…
- False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities.
- Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to…
- A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood,…
- To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their…
- We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
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