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- When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to…
- If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as…
- There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible men to read…
- The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. I will not…
- Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
- Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.
- Philosophy is a goddess, whose head indeed is in heaven, but whose feet are upon earth; she attempts more than she accomplishes, and promises more…
- Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.
- A thorough-paced knave will rarely quarrel with one whom he can cheat: his revenge is plunder; therefore he is usually the most forgiving of beings,…
- There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself, until a certain weight of affliction be…
- By privileges, immunities, or prerogatives to give unlimited swing to the passions of individuals, and then to hope that they will restrain them, is about…
- Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts,…
- Our incomes should be like our shoes, if too small, they will gall and pinch us, but if too large, they will cause us to…
- True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
- Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote…
- The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our…
- The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be…
- Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when…
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