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A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction an assent, an enraged eye makes beauty deformed. This little member gives life to every other part about us; and I believe the story of Argus implies no more than that the eye is in every part; that is to say, every other part would be mutilated were not its force represented more by the eye than even by itself. - [Eyes] A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful and wit good-natured. - in the "Tatler", no. 192 [Cheerfulness] A cloudy day, or a little sunshine, have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most real blessings or misfortunes. - [Influence] A cobbler, . . . produced several new grins of his own invention, having been used to cut faces for many years together over his last. - in the "Spectator", no. 173 [Shoemaking] A contemplation of God's works, a generous concern for the good of mankind, and the unfeigned exercise of humility only, denominate men great and glorious. - [Greatness] A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them. - [Contentment] A few persons of an odious and despised country could not have filled the world with believers, had they not shown undoubted credentials from the divine person who sent them on such a message. - [Christianity] A fine coat is but a livery when the person who wears it discovers no higher sense than that of a footman. - [Dress] A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes. - [Enemies] A friendship that makes the least noise is very often the most useful; for which reason I should prefer a prudent friend to a zealous one. - [Friendship] A good character, good habits, and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all the ill-luck that fools ever dreamed of. - [Luck] A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves a constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions that can possibly befall us. - [Conscience] A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. - [Modesty] A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality. - [Example] A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side. - [Unreasonableness] A man should always consider how much more unhappy he might be than he is. - [Unhappiness] A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy. - [Argument] A religious hope does not only bear up the mind under her sufferings but makes her rejoice in them. - [Hope] A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude. - [Greatness] A soul exasperated in ills, falls out With everything, its friend, itself. - [Misfortune] A source of cheerfulness to a good mind is the consideration of that Being on whom we have our dependence, and in whom, though we behold Him as yet but in the first faint discoveries of His perfections, we see everything that we can imagine as great glorious, or amiable. We find ourselves everywhere upheld by His goodness and surrounded by an immensity of love and mercy. - [God] A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero,--the wise, the good, or the great man,--very often lies hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred, and have brought to light. - [Education] A true critic ought rather to dwell upon excellences than imperfections, to discern the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation. - [Critics] A well regulated commerce is not, like law, physic, or divinity, to be overstocked with hands; but, on the contrary, flourishes by multitudes, and gives employment to all its professors. - [Commerce] Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. - [Admiration] Displaying page 1 of 13 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
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