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To attack vices in the abstract, without touching persons, may be safe fighting indeed, but it is fighting with shadows. - [Vice] Vanity indeed is a venial error; for it usually carries its own punishment with i. - [Vanity] We always make our friend appear awkward and ridiculous by giving him a laced suit of tawdry qualifications, which nature never intended him to wear. - [Praise] When a beautiful woman yields to temptation, let her consult her pride, though she forgets her virtue. - [Pride] When once a man is determined to believe, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms him in his faith. - [Perverseness] Private credit is wealth; public honor is security; the feather that adorns the royal bird supports its flight; strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth. - Affair of the Falkland Islands (vol. I, letter XLII) [Credit : Wealth] The heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute. - City Address and the King's Answer (letter XXXVII) [Character] The liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman. - Dedication to Letters [Journalism] These are the gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination; the melancholy madness of poetry, without the inspiration. - Letter No. VII--To Sir W. Draper [Imagination : Poetry] I do not give you to posterity as a pattern to imitate, but as an example to deter. - Letter XII--To the Duke of Grafton [Example] The Americans equally detest the pageantry of a king and the supercilious hypocrisy of a bishop. - Letter XXXV [Government] What yesterday was fact do-day is doctrine. - Letters (dedication) [Today] The gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination, the melancholy madness of poetry without the inspiration. - To Sir W. Draper (letter no. VIII) [Style] Displaying page 3 of 3 for this author: << Prev 1 2 [3]
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