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It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.
Dancing is at once rational & healthful: it gives animal spirits; it is the natural amusement of young people, & such it has been from the days of Moses.
Without bread all is misery.
He who writes badly thinks badly
Please your eye and plague your heart.
Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.
You never know what you can do till you try.
Praise the child, and you make love to the mother.
I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.
To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
WESTBURY, a nasty odious rotten-borough, a really rotten place.
Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
The smallness of our desires may contribute reasonably to our wealth.
Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.
However roguish a man may be, he always loves to deal with an honest man.
Learning consists of ideas, and not of the noise that is made by the mouth.
Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think what you shall write.
Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.
Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.
It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.
The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.
Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.
It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
Norwich is a very fine city, and the castle, which stands in the middle of it, on a hill, is truly majestic.
A full belly to the labourer was, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only source of real public peace.
DEAL is a most villainous place. It is full of filthy-looking people.Great desolationof abomination has beengoing on here.
All Middlesex is ugly, notwithstanding the millions upon millionswhichit iscontinuallysucking up fromtherestof the kingdom.
Protestations of impartiality I shall make none. Theyare always useless and are besides perfect nonsense, when used bya news-monger.
Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.
There never yet was, and never will be, a nation permanently great, consisting, for the greater part, of wretched and miserable families.
But what is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called, by the silly coxcombs of the press, "the metropolis of the empire"?
To live well, to enjoy all things that make life pleasant, is the right of every man who constantly uses his strength judiciously and lawfully.
Endless are the instances of men of bright parts and high spirit having been, by degrees, rendered powerless and despicable by their imaginary wants.
But I do not remember ever having seen a newspaper in the house; and, most certainly, that privation did not render us less industrious, happy, or free.
Never - no, not for one moment - believe that any human being, with sense in his skull, will love or respect you on account of your fine or costly clothes.
If the people of Sheffield could only receive a tenth part of what their knives sell for by retail in America, Sheffield might pave its streets with silver.
From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.
A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts. They are great softeners of temper and promoters of domestic harmony.
To have a dutiful family, the father's principle of rule must be love, not fear. His sway must be gentle, or he will have only an unwilling and short-lived obedience.
Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.
The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor.
The taste of the times is, unhappily, to give to children something of book-learning, with a view of placing them to live, in some way or other, upon the labour of other people.
I was a countryman and a father before I was a writer on political subjects... Born and bred up in the sweet air myself, I was resolved that my children should be bred up in it too.
The tendency of taxation is, to create a class of persons, who do not labour: to take from those who do labour the produce of that labour, and to give it to those who do not labour.
The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is now impossible to make people believe that immense fleets and armies are necessary.
The great security of all is to eat little and to drink nothing that intoxicates. He that eats till he is full is little better than a beast, and he that drinks till he is drunk is quite a beast.
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada are the horns, the head, the neck, the shins, and the hoof of the ox, and the United States are the ribs, the sirloin, the kidneys, and the rest of the body.
Good government is known from bad government by this infallible test: that under the former the labouring people are well fed and well clothed, and under the latter, they are badly fed and badly clothed.
The ancient nobility and gentry of the kingdom... have been thrust out of all public employment... a race of merchants, and manufacturers and bankers and loan-jobbers and contractors have usurped their place.
The town of GUILDFORD, which (taken with its environs) I, who have seen so many, many towns, think the prettiest, and, taken all together, the most agreeable and most happy-looking, that I ever saw in my life.
