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I am sick as a horse.
Keep away from the fire!
A coward never forgives.
Now or never was the time.
The sad vicissitude of things.
Endless is the search of truth.
Injuries come only from the heart.
The brave only know how to forgive.
Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.
The best hearts are ever the bravest.
Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
The loneliness is the mother of wisdom.
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
The world is ashamed of being virtuous.
Chance is the providence of adventurers.
Men tire themselves in the pursuit of sleep.
Human nature is the same in all professions.
What persons are by starts they are by nature.
Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.
An English man does not travel to see English men.
For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
The best friends in the world may differ sometimes.
Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.
"They order," said I, "this matter better in France."
Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.
To write a book is for all the world like humming a song.
The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.
Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.
Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
A man cannot dress, but his ideas get cloath'd at the same time.
Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.
In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
The way to fame, is like the way to heaven,--through much tribulation.
An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.
There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.
...beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.
A man should know something of his own country too, before he goes abroad.
I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
Writings may be compared to wine. Sense is the strength, but wit the flavor.
I had had an affair with the moon, in which there was neither sin nor shame.
Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune.
Philosophy has a fine saying for everything.-For Death it has an entire set.
When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion.
Vanity bids all her sons be brave, and all her daughters chaste and courteous.
There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.
People who drink too much, health, and greedy. Hoard a treasure we do not like.
Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.