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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the…
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If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps…
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Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.
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Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of…
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Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't…
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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
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I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.
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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake…
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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin,…
— Lord Byron
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In going on with these Experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves oblig'd to destroy! If…
— Benjamin Franklin
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A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
— William Hazlitt
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To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.
— William Penn
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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is…
— Baruch Spinoza
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One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with…
— Edmund Spenser
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1 - 2 - 3 To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's. William Penn…
— William Penn
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