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- Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured smile can work…
- Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
- A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.
- We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any…
- A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. The throwing…
- You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion.
- The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the…
- No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as…
- A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.
- He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.
- The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their…
- The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own prejudices,…
- The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest…
- In exploring new and doubtful tracts of speculation, the mind strikes out true and original views; as a drop of water hesitates at first what…
- Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds.
- He who draws upon his own resources easily comes to an end of his wealth.
- Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views.
- Pride erects a little kingdom of its own, and acts as sovereign in it.
- That humanity and sincerity which dispose men to resist injustice and tyranny render them unfit to cope with the cunning and power of those who…
- A taste for liberal art is necessary to complete the character of a gentleman, Science alone is hard and mechanical. It exercises the understanding upon…
- The great have private feelings of their own, to which the interests of humanity and justice must curtsy. Their interests are so far from being…
- Learning is its own exceeding great reward; and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it.
- Whatever is placed beyond the reach of sense and knowledge, whatever is imperfectly discerned, the fancy pieces out at its leisure; and all but the…
- The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their…
- Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
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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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