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- 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…
- I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience;…
- The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made…
- The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules are supposed coeval…
- Reason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness.
- We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest,…
- Deceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences they may for a time promise or produce, are, in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness. Those who profit…
- 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…
- A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient…
- The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make…
- A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in…
- It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
- Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know…
- At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
- By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man,…
- Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our…
- We never do anything consciously for the last time without sadness of heart.
- Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his…
- Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That…
- And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
- When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I…
- So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and…
- A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.
- To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise...Let…
- Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come.
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