• Nature

  Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

  3.1 · 43 votes · 130 reads

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• Various

  Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

  4.5 · 29 votes · 188 reads

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• Nature

  As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men.

  4.0 · 53 votes · 31 reads

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• Defects

  Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.

  4.0 · 37 votes · 25 reads

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• Various

  Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

  3.4 · 18 votes · 81 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

  4.8 · 39 votes · 54 reads

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• Society

  Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

  3.6 · 24 votes · 23 reads

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• Virtues

  Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

  3.8 · 62 votes · 117 reads

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• Virtues

  Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

  4.0 · 29 votes · 116 reads

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• Feelings

  Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.

  4.4 · 21 votes · 61 reads

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• Feelings

  Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

  4.2 · 37 votes · 183 reads

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• Virtues

  Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.

  3.0 · 48 votes · 62 reads

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• Time

  He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

  4.0 · 26 votes · 126 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.

  3.5 · 13 votes · 125 reads

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• Various

  I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ''What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.''

  3.9 · 16 votes · 180 reads

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• Feelings

  I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

  4.8 · 26 votes · 66 reads

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• Feelings

  If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

  4.1 · 26 votes · 190 reads

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• Virtues

  It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

  4.0 · 14 votes · 144 reads

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• Virtues

  Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

  4.1 · 31 votes · 97 reads

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• Feelings

  Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

  4.0 · 6 votes · 100 reads

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• Feelings

  Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

  4.4 · 9 votes · 0 reads

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• Virtues

  Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

  3.6 · 32 votes · 179 reads

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• Virtues

  Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

  3.5 · 39 votes · 143 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Music, the greatest good that mortals know, and all of heaven we have below.

  3.5 · 16 votes · 41 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

  4.0 · 11 votes · 22 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

  4.5 · 13 votes · 151 reads

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• Virtues

  Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

  4.2 · 29 votes · 35 reads

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• Defects

  Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.

  3.6 · 61 votes · 142 reads

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• Feelings

  Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

  4.8 · 47 votes · 110 reads

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• Nature

  See in what peace a Christian can die.

  4.9 · 28 votes · 8 reads

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• Society

  That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

  3.2 · 36 votes · 22 reads

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• Defects

  The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment.

  4.1 · 46 votes · 178 reads

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• Nature

  The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

  4.4 · 63 votes · 62 reads

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• Feelings

  The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

  4.1 · 6 votes · 126 reads

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• Feelings

  The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

  3.1 · 51 votes · 183 reads

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• Feelings

  The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

  4.4 · 33 votes · 20 reads

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• Various

  The post of honor is a private station.

  4.8 · 36 votes · 156 reads

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• Society

  The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

  4.1 · 18 votes · 30 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

  4.3 · 33 votes · 166 reads

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• Society

  There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.

  3.9 · 31 votes · 165 reads

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