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- General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not…
- I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth... I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them.
- They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at…
- Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.
- The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and…
- Most of the methods for measuring the lapse of time have, I believe, been the contrivance of monks and religious recluses, who, finding time hang…
- To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.
- Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation; but…
- He who would see old Hoghton right Must view it by the pale moonlight.
- The affected modesty of most women is a decoy for the generous, the delicate, and unsuspecting; while the artful, the bold, and unfeeling either see…
- However we may flatter ourselves to the contrary, our friends think no higher of us than the world do. They see us through the jaundiced…
- We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
- If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we…
- Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.
- True friendship is self-love at second hand; where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors softened, and where…
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