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- Worth seeing, yes; but not worth going to see.
- Let him that desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay…
- Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.
- People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as…
- In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is…
- A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we…
- False taste is always busy to mislead those that are entering upon the regions of learning; and the traveller, uncertain of his way, and forsaken…
- Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who…
- The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much kindness, there is…
- He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.
- It is the quality of patriotism to be jealous and watchful, to observe all secret machinations, and to see publick dangers at a distance. The…
- The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
- They who have already enjoyed the crowds and noise of the great city, know their desire to return is little more than the restlessness of…
- I do not see, Sir, that it is reasonable for a man to be angry at another, whom a woman has preferred to him; but…
- We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than…
- To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or any…
- No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn…
- It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit, or analogy supply;…
- Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of…
- The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
- I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
- It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we…
- Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him.…
- Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made…
- I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world
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