3.2 · 38 votes · 107 reads
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4.6 · 39 votes · 124 reads
3.8 · 63 votes · 186 reads
Thought and Reason
An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.3.8 · 29 votes · 105 reads
Feelings
At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.3.0 · 26 votes · 166 reads
Society
Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.4.0 · 41 votes · 67 reads
Society
But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.4.5 · 51 votes · 91 reads
Art and Culture
Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.3.5 · 44 votes · 162 reads
Art and Culture
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.4.1 · 5 votes · 135 reads
Government and Politics
For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.4.7 · 43 votes · 29 reads
Defects
For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.3.5 · 19 votes · 131 reads
Virtues
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.4.8 · 14 votes · 88 reads
Virtues
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.4.6 · 16 votes · 144 reads
Feelings
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.4.1 · 47 votes · 150 reads
Virtues
Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.4.3 · 40 votes · 107 reads
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