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- Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see…
- I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
- The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
- The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter…
- Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore…
- But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give…
- If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches…
- Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.
- Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them.
- Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot…
- Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all our unhappiness.
- A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.…
- A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.
- It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally…
- We see the pernicious effects of luxury in the ancient Romans, who immediately found themselves poor as soon as this vice got footing among them.
- I... recommend to every one of my Readers, the keeping a Journal of their Lives for one Week, and setting down punctually their whole Series…
- Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things…
- When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after the works of the author who has written them, and by that means discover…
- The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The…
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- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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