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Love is full of imagination.
Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon.
Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.
Be shocking, be daring, be bold, be passionate.
Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem
Compulsion hardly restores right; love yields all things.
Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem.
none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.
Goodness is equally hateful to the wicked, as vice is to the virtuous.
There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate.
To be truly and really independent is to support ourselves by our own exertions.
Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.
It is not designed that the road should be made too smooth for us here upon earth.
The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.
In his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles.
Bright was the summer of 1296. The war which had desolated Scotland was then at an end.
The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.
National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices.
we never know the blessings bestowed on us until we are separated from the possession of them.
A generous spirit is as eloquent in acknowledging benefits as it is bounteous in bestowing them.
When the cup of any sensual pleasure is drained to the bottom, there is always poison in the dregs.
Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.
Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle.
Yet happiness isn't something you chase, it's something you are. It's something you think, it's something you believe.
The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber.
That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart.
How different is the ready hand, tearful eye, and soothing voice, from the ostentatious appearance which is called pity.
The pure in heart are slow to credit calumnies, because they hardly comprehend what motives can be inducements to the alleged crimes.
In the career of female fame, there are few prizes to tie obtained which can vie with the obscure state of a beloved wife or a happy mother.
However you disguise slavery, it is slavery still. Its chains, though wreathed with roses, not only fasten on the body but rivet on the mind.
True virtue, when she errs, needs not the eyes of men to excite her blushes; she is confounded at her own presence, and covered with confusion of face.
The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no bulwark of mere morality, which some temptation may not overtop or undermine, and destroy.
If cowardice were not so completely a coward as to be unable to look steadily upon the effects of courage, he would find that there is no refuge so sure as dauntless valor.
We value the devotedness of friendship rather as an oblation to vanity than as a free interchange of hearts; an endearing contract of sympathy, mutual forbearance, and respect!
When Alexander had subdued the world, and wept that none were left to dispute his arms, his tears were an involuntary tribute to a monarchy that he knew not, man's empire over himself.
The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you.
The doubts of love are never to be wholly overcome; they grow with its various anxieties, timidities, and tenderness, and are the very fruits of the reverence in which the admired object is beheld.
Virtue is despotic; life, reputation, every earthly good, must be surrendered at her voice. The law may seem hard, but it is the guardian of what it commands; and is the only sure defence of happiness.
I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another.
The fruition of what is unlawful must be followed by remorse. The core sticks in the throat after the apple is eaten, and the sated appetite loathes the interdicted pleasure for which innocence was bartered.
Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.
Don't live to please others. Don't think everyone else knows what's right or true. Listen to yourself, and be true to yourself. That way, no matter what else happens in life, you will always have your self-respect.
The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who injured us; and it is hardly possible for one man to be more unlike another than he that forbears to avenge himself of wrong is to him who did the wrong.
People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.
People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed. The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.
He that easily believes rumors has the principle within him to augment rumors. It is strange to see the ravenous appetite with which some devourers of character and happiness fix upon the sides of the innocent and unfortunate.
The platform or the altar of love may be analyzed and explained; it is constructed of virtue, beauty, and affection. Such is the pyre, such is the offering; but the ethereal spark must come from heaven, that lights the sacrifice.
Life is a warfare; and he who easily desponds deserts a double duty--he betrays the noblest property of man, which is dauntless resolution; and he rejects the providence of that All-Gracious Being who guides and rules the universe.
I never yet heard man or woman much abused, that I was not inclined to think the better of them; and to transfer any suspicion or dislike, to the person who appeared to take delight in pointing out the defects of a fellow-creature.
We all know that a lie needs no other grounds, than the invention of the liar; and to take for granted as truth, all that is alleged against the fame of others, is a species of credulity, that men would blush at on any other subject.