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A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant. - [Pedantry] Adversity, which makes us indulgent to others, renders them severe towards us. - [Adversity] Age whitens hairs, but not sin. - [Sin] An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness. - [Anger] Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat. - [Future] Conscience serves us especially to judge of the actions of others. - [Conscience] Do not crowd the understanding; it can comprehend so much and no more. A pint pot will not contain the measure of a quart. - [Understanding] Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt--just a little? - [Flirting] Doubt springs from the mind; faith is the daughter of the soul. - [Doubt] Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach. - [Envy] Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils. - [Illusion] Experience unveils too late the snares laid for youth; it is the white frost which discovers the spider's web when the flies are no longer there to be caught. - [Experience] Genius, like a torch, shines less in the broad daylight of the present than in the night of the past. - [Genius] Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it. - [Happiness] How many wells of science there are in whose depths there is nothing but clear water! - [Science] In a better world we will find our young years and our old friends. - [Heaven] In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity. - [Charity] In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others. - [Secrecy] It is easy to be virtuous in prospective. - [Virtue] It is more pitiable once to have been rich than not to be rich now. - [Riches] It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others. - [Gossip] It requires less character to discover the faults of others than to tolerate them. - [Faults] Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others. - [Credulity] Let us respect gray Lairs, but, above all, our own. - [Self-respect] Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue with bigots. - [Vehemence] Displaying page 1 of 3 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3
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