“Knowledge is of two kinds; we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.”
“Knowledge is of two kinds; we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.”
“Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.”
“The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.”
“A man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.”
“What is easy is seldom excellent.”
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“Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.”
“Friendship is a union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond there of virtue.”
“Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.”
“So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.”
“Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.”
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“It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.”
“By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.”
“A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.”
“The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.”
“Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected even when it is associated with vice.”
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“The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.”
“No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.”
“My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.”
“Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.”
“Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.”
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“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.”
“Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.”
“There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not know it.”
“Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.”
“Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.”
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“Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.”
“To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.”
“All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.”
“Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.”
“Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.”
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“It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.”
“Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.”
“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.”
“I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.”
“Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.”
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“That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both.”
“If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone.”
“Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.”
“It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.”
“It is better to live rich than to die rich.”
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“Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent.”
“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.”
“The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.”
“No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.”
“So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.”
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“There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.”
“Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.”
“Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.”