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- Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a…
- That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind;…
- Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always in our power.…
- The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own nature, confined to a very…
- Every class of society has its cant of lamentation, which is understood or regarded by none but themselves; and every part of life has its…
- The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has given…
- The uniform necessities of human nature produce in a great measure uniformity of life, and for part of the day make one place like another;…
- It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of the most studious…
- Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other part of learning,…
- You need a good editor because every writer thinks he can write a War and Peace, but by the time he gets it on paper,…
- In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.
- He that is warm for truth, and fearless in its defense, performs one of the duties of a good man; he strenghtens his own conviction,…
- How small of all that human hearts endure/That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
- Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without very accurate inquiry…
- That there is something in advice very useful and salutary, seems to be equally confessed on all hands; since even those that reject it, allow…
- Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition.…
- Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied…
- Composition is for the most part an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and…
- How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned,…
- In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether slavery can ever…
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