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A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others. - [Inspiration] A very small offence may be a just cause for great resentment: it is often much less the particular instance which is obnoxious to us than the proof it carries with it of the general tenor and disposition of the mind from whence it sprung. - [Offense] As charity covers a multitude of sins before God, so does politeness before men. - [Politeness] Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator. - [Avarice] Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body. - [Despair] Discernment is a power of the understanding in which few excel. Is not that owing to its connection with impartiality and truth? for are not prejudice and partiality blind? - [Discernment] Envy is but the smoke of low estate, Ascending still against the fortunate. - [Envy] Good-humor is allied to generosity, ill-humor to meanness. - [Good Humor] Good-humor will sometimes conquer ill-humor, but ill-humor will conquer it oftener; and for this plain reason, good-humor must operate on generosity, ill-humor on meanness. - [Good Humor] Human knowledge is the parent of doubt. - [Doubt] I hardly know so melancholy a reflection as that parents are necessarily the sole directors of the management of children, whether they have or have not judgment, penetration or taste to perform the task. - [Children] I have often thought that the nature of women was interior to that of men in general, but superior in particular. - [Nature] It is not enough that you can form nay, and follow, the most excellent rules for conducting yourself in the world. You must also know when to deviate from them, and where lies the exception. - [Conduct] It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure. - [Adversity] Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter. - [Laughter] Many with trust, with doubt few, are undone. - [Doubt] Men and statues that are admired ire an elevated situation have a very different effect upon us when we approach them; the first appear less than we imagined them, the last bigger. - [Contrast] Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have. - [Courage] No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself. - [Conceit : Deceit] One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world is their finding so little there. Generosity is catching; and if so many men escape it, it is in a great degree from the same reason the countrymen escape the smallpox,--because they meet no one to give it to them. - [Generosity] Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours. - [Appreciation : Companions : Conversation] Some characters are like some bodies in chemistry; very good, perhaps, in themselves, yet fly off and refuse the least conjunction with each other. - [Character] Surely no man can reflect, without wonder upon the vicissitudes of human life arising from causes in the highest degree accidental and trifling. If you trace the necessary concatenation of human events a very little way back, you may perhaps discover that a person's very going in or out of a door has been the means of coloring with misery or happiness the remaining current of his life. - [Chance] The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false; that it lessens. - [Beauty] The mind of man is this world's true dimension; and knowledge is the measure of the mind. - [Knowledge] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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