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A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show...  
A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.  
A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.  
A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every o...  
A wise traveler never despises his own country.  
Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of classical educ...  
As is our confidence, so is our capacity.  
Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are ...  
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our ow...  
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering othe...  
Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his t...  
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gon...   Friendship
Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in i...  
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rule...  
Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.  
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we w...  
Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism...  
Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality...  
Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the...  
General principles are not the less true or important because from the...  
Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.  
Good temper is an estate for life.  
Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.  
Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony...  
Grace in women has more effect than beauty.  
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, ...  
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.  
He talked on for ever; and you wished him to talk on for ever.  
He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.  
Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those wh...  
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wi...  
I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.  
I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I ...  
I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but...  
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes,...  
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespea...  
If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you...  
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.  
It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to d...  
It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and ...  
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better...  
Learning is its own exceeding great reward.  
Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realise the Self. Purity of the heart...  
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only anima...  
Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols - i...  
Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the ...  
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of g...  
No truly great man ever thought himself so.  
No truly great person ever thought themselves so.  
No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he s...  
One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring d...  
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in i...  
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.   Poetry
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.  
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.  
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pamp...  
Rules and models destroy genius and art.   Art
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.  
Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.  
Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.  
That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to...  
The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of...  
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very mu...  
The busier we are the more leisure we have.  
The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less o...  
The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proce...  
The incentive to ambition is the love of power.  
The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasine...  
The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or...  
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the lo...  
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requi...  
The more we do, the more we can do.  
The most learned are often the most narrow minded.  
The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business...  
The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin...  
The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.  
The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most ...  
The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.  
The public have neither shame or gratitude.  
The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their o...  
The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the ...  
The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a v...  
The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he...  
The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, ne...  
The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we ju...  
There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!  
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have...  
There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. ...  
There is no more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, ...  
There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied ex...  
There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spitef...  
They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, ...  
Those who can command themselves command others.  
Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in ge...  
Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, Although they come and go b...  
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of ad...  
To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinar...  
To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us...  
To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.  
We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observatio...  
We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.  
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and ou...   Nature
We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and cong...  
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of d...  
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.  
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectu...  
Zeal will do more than knowledge.