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A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant. - [Proverbs] A home without books is a body without soul. - [Books] A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys. - [Man] A nail in the wound. - [Proverbial Phrases] A perverse temper and fretful disposition will, wherever they prevail render any state of life whatsoever unhappy. - [Unhappiness] A wise man does nothing by constraint. - [Proverbs] A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over a worn-out body to old age. - [Sensuality] All great men are in some degree inspired. - [Genius] All great men are partially inspired. - [Greatness] All soils are not fertile. - [Proverbs] All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another. - [Art] An evil at its birth is easily crushed, but it grows and strengthens by endurance. - [Evil] And let men so conduct themselves in life As to be always strangers to defeat. - [Conduct] Anger should never appear in awarding punishment. - [Proverbs] As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence. - [Eloquence] As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration. - [Argument] As you sow, so shall you also reap. - [Proverbs] Avarice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road, the nearer we approach to our journey's end? - [Avarice] Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation. - [Influence] Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul. - [Borrowing] Brevity is a great praise of eloquence. - [Brevity] Brevity is the best recommendation of a speech, not only in the case of a senator, but in that, too; of an orator. - [Brevity] Can anyone find out in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening? [Lat., An id exploratum cuiquam potest esse, quomodo sese habiturum sit corpus, non dico ad annum set ad vesperam?] - [Future] Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift? - [Thrift] Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence. - [Proverbs] Displaying page 1 of 19 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
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