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- To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar
- Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness . . .
- What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.
- If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our…
- Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of a larger meaning; he that…
- The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety…
- Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.
- Attack is the reaction. I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.
- There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible.
- About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right.
- People in distress never think that you feel enough.
- To me - the choice of life is become less important; I hope hereafter to think only on the choice of eternity.
- Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in…
- The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never…
- The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak…
- I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place,…
- The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
- Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
- Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
- A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
- What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
- Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
- Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom…
- Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
- Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so,…
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