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He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at. - [Greatness] He who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done, is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling. - [Candor] He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action. - [Vulgarity] He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble. - [Pride] He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love. - [Forgiveness] His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing. - [Calumny] How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones! - [Want] Humility add love, whatever obscurities may involve religious tenets, constitute the essence of true religion. The humble is formed to adore; the loving, to associate with eternal love. - [Religion] If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic. - [Fanaticism] If you wish to appear agreeable in society you must consent to be taught many things which you know already. - [Agree] In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners. - [Manners] Injustice arises either from precipitation or indolence or from a mixture of both. The rapid and the slow are seldom just; the unjust wait either not at all, or wait too long. - [Injustice] Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once. It seldom belongs to man to say without presumption, "I came, I saw, I conquered." - [Intuition] It is one of my favorite thoughts that God manifests Himself to men in all the wise, good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous men. - [God] It is possible that a wise and good man may be prevailed on to game; but it is impossible that a professed gamester should be a wise and good man. - [Gambling] Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God,--as his God, so he. - [Character] Just as you are pleased at finding faults, you are displeased at finding perfections. - [Faults] Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection. - [Envy] Let the degree of egotism be the measure of confidence. - [Egotism] Loudness is impotence. - [Blustering] Malice is poisoned by her own venom. - [Malice] Man without religion is a diseased creature, who would persuade himself he is well and needs not a physician; but woman without religion is raging and monstrous. - [Religion] Mistrust the man who finds everything good; the man who finds everything evil; and still more the man who is indifferent to everything. - [Mistrust] Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak; the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself. - [Modesty] Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance. - [Elegance] Displaying page 4 of 8 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 [4] 5 6 7 8
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