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Sincerity has to do with the connexion between our words and thoughts, and not between our beliefs and actions.
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Despair swallows up cowardice.
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I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
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Within my heart is lurking suspicion, and base fear, and shame and hate; but above all, tyrannous love sits throned, crowned with her graces, silent and in tears.
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You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelvemonth with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous university.
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Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.
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We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility
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One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, it is more stood upon than any other thing in the world.
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Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.
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He who does nothing renders himself incapable of doing any thing; but while we are executing any work, we are preparing and qualifying ourselves to undertake another.
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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
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Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.
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Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.
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Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.
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The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas.
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Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.
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We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
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The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.
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Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.
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To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.
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Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.
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Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.
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To the proud the slightest repulse or disappointment is the last indignity.
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The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.
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