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Brutes find out where their talents lie: a bear will not attempt to fly. - [Instinct] By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England. - [Freedom] Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter. - [Loquacity] Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives. - [Complaining] Conscience signifies that knowledge which a man hath of his own thoughts and actions; and because, if a man judgeth fairly of his actions by comparing them with the law of God, his mind will approve or condemn him; this knowledge or conscience may be both an accuser and a judge. - [Conscience] Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency. - [Cowards] Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants. - [Genius] Every creature lives in a state of war by nature. - [War] Every dog must have his day. - [Dogs] Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame. - [Trifles] Few are qualified to shine in company; but it is in most men's power to be agreeable. - [Manners] Fine words! I wonder where you stole 'em. [Lat., Libertas et natale solum.] - said about Chief Justice Whitshed's motto for his coach [Plagiarism] Fingers were made before forks and hands before knives. - [Proverbs] Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem. - [Flattery] Fond of those hives where folly reigns, And cards and scandal are the chains, Where the pert virgin slights a name, And scorns to redden into shame. - [Slander] Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters. - [Fools] For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is slavery. - [Government] God forbid that such a scoundrel as want should dare approach me! - [Want] Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. - [Manners] Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors. - [Greatness] Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age. - [Discretion] Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the highest station in the court, the church, and the law? - [Talent] He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of. - [Ingratitude] Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors. - [Government] His talk was now of tythes and flues; He smok'd his pipe, and read the news; Knew how to preach old sermons next, Vamp'd in the preface and the text; At christenings well could act his part, And had the service all by heart; Wish'd women might have children fast, And thought whose sow had farrow'd last; Against dissenters would repine, And stood up firm for right divine; Found his head fill'd with many a system, But classic authors--he ne'er miss'd 'em. - [Clergymen] Displaying page 2 of 12 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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