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The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as...
Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.
Source: Spectator,...
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human...
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own...
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
Source: Spectator, no. 112 (London),...
The Hand that made us is divine.
Source: The Spectator, no. 465.
-- Joseph...
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of...
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a...
A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or...
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than the instinct of animals, which thus rise above...
To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of...
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
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-- Joseph...
Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives...
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing...
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual...
Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.
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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the...