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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
A good heart will, at all times, betray the best head in the world.
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
Hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune.
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
Men who pay for what they eat will insist on gratifying their palates
What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil's work for free.
Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.
Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
Yes, I had two strings to my bow; both golden ones, egad! and both cracked.
The only source of the true Ridiculous (as it appears to me) is affectation
A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another.
Sensuality not only debases both body and mind, but dulls the keen edge of pleasure.
The blackest ink of fate are sure my lot, And when fate writ my name it made a blot.
The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.
Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death.
For parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is an usurped power.
It is a trite but true definition that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.
Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour.
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
There is nothing a Man of good Sense dreads so much in a Wife, as her having more Sense than himself.
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.
Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.