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Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves. - [Conversation] Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought. - [Simplicity] Spleen can subsist on any kind of food. - [Anger] Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity. - [Business] Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary. - [Talent] That which any one has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportionable eagerness and haste. - [Learning] The amiable is the voluptuous in expression or manner. The sense of pleasure in ourselves is that which excites it in others; or, the art of pleasing is to seem pleased. - [Pleasure] The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it. - [Habit] The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming. - [Friendship] The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste. - [Taste] The essence of poetry is will and passion. - [Poetry] The expression of a gentleman's face is not so much that of refinement, as of flexibility, not of sensibility and enthusiasm as of indifference; it argues presence of mind rather than enlargement of ideas. - [Gentlemen] The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness. - [Death] The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it. - [Virtue] The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one. - [Books] The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice. - [Ignorance] The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it. - [Imagination] The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty. - [Duty] The look of a gentleman is little else than the reflection of the looks of the world. - [Gentlemen] The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is a solitary abstraction. * * * A name "fast anchored in the deep abyss of time" is like a star twinkling in the firmament, cold, silent, distant, but eternal and sublime; and our transmitting one to posterity is as if we should contemplate our translation to the skies. - [Fame] The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame. - [Fame] The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own prejudices, to control him. - [Virtue] The mind revolts against certain opinions, as the stomach rejects certain foods. - [Opinion] The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. - [Industry] The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints. - [Anger] Displaying page 6 of 11 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 [6] 7 8 9 10 11
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