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- A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time, but they will…
- To tell your own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery,…
- Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
- He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in…
- Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
- All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse,…
- No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however flagrant, and the…
- He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are…
- That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.
- Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with something…
- Of all kinds of credulity, the most obstinate is that of party-spirit; of men, who, being numbered, they know not why, in any party, resign…
- Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining…
- Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than…
- It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his own miseries without…
- It is a man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grow torpid in old age.
- As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it
- It is peculiarly the business of a monitor to keep his own reputation untainted, lest those who can once charge him with partiality, should indulge…
- That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own self-esteem
- To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its…
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- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
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