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- Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.
- As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer.…
- Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.
- Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.
- Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to go to excess…
- Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts…
- All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not. In…
- 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…
- It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but…
- He who sees different ways to the same end, will, unless he watches carefully over his own conduct, lay out too much of his attention…
- Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of…
- I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession.
- 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…
- Every man, however hopeless his pretensions may appear, has some project by which he hopes to rise to reputation; some art by which he imagines…
- Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes…
- The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
- There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.
- It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of…
- Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
- Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him…
- No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.
- Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very…
- Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.
- Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion.
- The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of reply
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
- What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided… — Billie Joe Armstrong
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- I'm not going to conform to some consumer need. — Billie Joe Armstrong