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Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun. - [Dew] True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself. - [Politeness] Ugliness is a letter of credit for some special purposes. - [Ugliness] Very ugly or very beautiful women should be flattered on their understanding, and mediocre ones on their beauty. - [Flattery] We are as often duped by diffidence as by confidence. - [Diffidence] Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one. - [Learning] Whatever poets may write, or fools believe, of rural innocence and truth, and of the perfidy of courts, this is most undoubtedly true,--that shepherds and ministers are both men; their natures and passions the same, the modes of them only different. - [Station] When I reflect upon what I have seen, what I have heard, what I have done, I can hardly persuade myself that all that frivolous hurry and bustle and pleasure of the world had any reality; and I look on what has passed as one of those wild dreams which opium occasions, and I by no means wish to repeat the nauseous dose for the sake of the fugitive illusion. - [Life] Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him. Haste and hurry are very different things. - [Haste] Women and young men are very apt to tell what secrets they know from the vanity of having been intrusted. - [Secrecy] Women are much more alike than men; they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics. - [Passion] Women especially as to be talked to as below men, and above children. - [Women] Wrongs are often forgiven; but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weaknesses, which we are much more careful to conceal than crimes. Many a man will confess his crimes to a common friend, but I never knew a man who would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one. - [Contempt] You must look into people as well as at them. - [Character] You should not only have attention to everything, but a quickness of attention, so as to observe at once all the people in the room--their motions, their looks and their words--and yet without staring at them and seeming to be an observer. - [Observation] Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are to think themselves sober enough. - [Youth] Young men are as apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are to think themselves sober enough. They look upon spirit to be a much better thing than experience; which they call coldness. They are but half mistaken; for though spirit without experience is dangerous, experience without spirit is languid and ineffective. - [Experience] The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun. - Advice to a Lady in Autumn [Dew] He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence. - Character of Bolingbroke [Eloquence] The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an Earldom. - Character of Pulleney [Character] I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. - Letter [Time] The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh. - Letter to his Son [Laughter] Style is the dress of thoughts. - Letter to his Son--On Education [Style] Despatch is the soul of business. - Letters [Business] I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow who used to say, "Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves." - Letters, quoting Lowndes [Money] Displaying page 5 of 6 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 [5] 6
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