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A little bitter mingled in our cup leaves no relish of the sweet. - [Grief] Affection endeavors to correct natural defects, and has always the laudable aim of pleasing, though it always misses it. - [Affectation] All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. - [Error] All sects, as far as reason will help them, gladly use it; when it fails them, they cry out it is a matter of faith, and above reason. - [Faith] Anger is uneasiness or discomposure of the mind upon the receipt of any injury, with a present purpose of revenge. - [Anger] As to cards and dice, I think the safest and best way is never to learn to play upon them, and so to be incapacitated for those dangerous temptations and encroaching wasters of time. - [Games] Beauty or unbecomingness is of more force to draw or deter invitation than any discourses which can be made to them. - [Beauty] Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humor should be constantly employed in something of use to them. - [Children] Conscience is merely our own judgment of the moral rectitude or turpitude of our own actions. - [Conscience] Curiosity in children Nature has provided to remove the ignorance they were born with. - [Curiosity] Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and education must finish him. - [Education] Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected. - [Error] Experience: in that all our knowledge is founded; and from that it ultimately derives itself. Our observation employed either about external or sensible objects or about the internal operations of our minds, perceived and reflected on by ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with all the materials of thinking. - [Experience] Fashion is, for the most part, nothing but the ostentation of riches. - [Fashion] Figured and metaphorical expressions do well to illustrate more abstruse and unfamiliar ideas, which the mind is not yet thoroughly accustomed to. - [Metaphors] Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice. - [Obstinacy] Folly consists in the drawing of false conclusions from just principles, by which it is distinguished from madness, which draws just conclusions from false principles. - [Folly] Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues. - [Fortitude] Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary will of another man. - [Government] From the very first instances of perception, some things are grateful and others unwelcome to us; some things we incline to, and others we fly. - [Inclination] Gardening, or husbandry, and working in wood, are healthy recreations. - [Health] General observations drawn from particulars are the jewels of knowledge, comprehending great store in a little room. - [Brevity] Gentleness is far more successful in all its enterprises than violence; indeed, violence generally frustrates its own purpose, while gentleness scarcely ever fails. - [Gentleness] Good qualities are the substantial riches of the mind; but it is good breeding that sets them off to advantage. - [Good Breeding] Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed. - [Habit] Displaying page 1 of 4 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4
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