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The insupportable labor of doing nothing.
Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.
There are so few who can grow old with a good grace.
A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript
A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.
Readings is to the mind what exercice is to the body.
Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.
That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart
That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.
A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.
A fool is in himself the object of pity, until he is flattered.
Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.
Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.
The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.
Though very troublesome to others, anger is most so to him that has it.
There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy
There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.
A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
No woman is capable of being beautiful who is not incapable of being false.
Will. Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous.
Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weakness of an exalted character.
I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him
I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.
Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.
It is to beoted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.
I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me
It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.
Whoever would be wise should read the Proverbs; whoever would be holy should read the Psalms.
Whether a pretty woman grants or withholds her favors, she always likes to be asked for them.
A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.
To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.
Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it.
When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.
It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.
I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker.
One common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular
I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.
Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes.
Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.
Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox.
You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character.
When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the violin.
The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.
A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do
It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do.