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Take here the grand secret; if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to fashion.
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The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false.
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He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.
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Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.
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Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.
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All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich.
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Three days of uninterrupted company in a vehicle will make you better acquainted with another, than one hour's conversation with him every day for three years.
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Trust not him with your secrets, who, when left alone in the room, turns over your papers.
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Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.
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Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
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He who freely praises what he means to purchase, and he who enumerates the faults of what he means to sell, may set up a partnership with honesty.
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The discovery of truth by slow, progressive meditation is talent. Intuition of the truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.
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You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.
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The manner of giving shows the character of the giver more than the gift itself. There is a princely manner of giving, and a royal manner of accepting.
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If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to such as left a sense of uneasiness with you; and then show your copy to whom you please.
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If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
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He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity.
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The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms.
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The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold.
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The enemy of art is the enemy of nature; art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertions of human nature; and what nature will he honor who honors not the human?
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Wishes run over in loquacious impotence, will presses on with laconic energy.
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The quicker, the louder, the applause with which another tries to gain you over to his purpose--the bitterer his censure if he miss his aim.
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As you treat your body, so your house, your domestics, your enemies, your friends. Dress is a table of your contents.
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Who gives is positive; who receives is negative; still there remains an immense class of mere passives.
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Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
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Born:
November 15, 1741
Died:
January 2, 1801
(aged 59)
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