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If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.
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There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.
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Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty; as, where the sun is brightest, the shade is deepest.
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Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their self-love.
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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry: on the other hand poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
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Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else; and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our knowledge, and goes without it.
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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.
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The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
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There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us.
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We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it; but we avoid such as differ from us.
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We must not indulge in unfavourable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe that they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.
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A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.
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Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.
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Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more.
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Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in its excess.
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Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
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Justice is often pale and melancholy; but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness.
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We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.
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No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl; no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman.
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Fame, they tell you, is air; but without air there is no life for any; without fame there is none for the best.
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Teach him to live unto God and unto thee; and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade.
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Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the greatest of all; if we consider it as a madness, we are equally justifiable in applying to it the readiest and the surest means of oppression.
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Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away; but, Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet.
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Born:
January 30, 1775
Died:
September 17, 1864
(aged 89)
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