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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome?
The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action.
A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
The pride of woman, natural to her, never sleeps until modesty is gone.
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
Though a man cannot abstain from being weak, he may from being vicious.
Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
The Infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian Cane.
Among the several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors.
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
The time never lies heavy upon him; it is impossible for him to be alone.
The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art.
The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.
A soul exasperated in ills, falls out With everything, its friend, itself.
The moderns cannot reach their beauties, but can avoid their imperfections.
A vast space naturally raises in my thoughts the idea of an Almighty Being.
I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.
As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.
Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them.
Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise.
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.
When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.
Good-breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears the least.
There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, and intimates eternity to man.
I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness.
Man is the merriest species of the creation; all above or below him are serious.
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
We have in England a particular bashfulness in every thing that regards religion.
There is no talent so pernicious as eloquence to those who have it under command.
There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal.
Must one rash word, the infirmity of age, throw down the merit of my better years?
Waning moons their settled periods keep, to swell the billows and ferment the deep.
Nations with nations mix'd confus'dly die, and lost in one promiscuous carnage lie.
Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
The gloomy months of November, when the people of England hang and drown themselves.
Men naturally warm and heady are transported with the greatest flush of good-nature.
I should think myself a very bad woman, if I had done what I do for a farthing less.