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Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.
Haste is always ungraceful.
To appear rich, we become poor.
There is no magician like love.
Calumny is the offspring of Envy.
He who fears not, is to be feared.
Mediocrity is beneath a brave soul.
There is no cosmetic like happiness
Superstition is but the fear of belief.
Heaven sends us misfortunes as a moral tonic.
Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.
He who would remain honest ought to keep away want.
The future: A consolation for those who have no other.
Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others.
alas! there is no casting anchor in the stream of time!
Wit lives in the present, but genius survives the future.
Spring is the season of hope, and autumn is that of memory.
Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable.
Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.
Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.
Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.
The infirmities of genius are often mistaken for its privileges.
Society punishes not the vices of its members, but their detection.
It is a sad thing to look at happiness only through another's eyes.
Satire, like conscience, reminds us of what we often wish to forget.
Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.
Listeners beware, for ye are doomed never to hear good of yourselves.
Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.
Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.
Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
Bores: People who talk of themselves, when you are thinking only of yourself.
Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.
We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers
We are more prone to murmur at the punishment of our faults than to lament them.
Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.
Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.
People are always willing to follow advice when it accords with their own wishes.
We have a reading, a talking, and a writing public. When shall we have a thinking?
Love and enthusiasm are always ridiculous, when not reciprocated by their objects.
Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.
Wit is the lightning of the mind, reason the sunshine, and reflection the moonlight.
Pleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys.
Men who would persecute others for religious opinions, prove the errors of their own.
Reason dissipates the illusions of life, but does not console us for their departure.
A mother's love! O holy, boundless thing! Fountain whose waters never cease to spring!
To amend mankind, moralists should show them man, not as he is, but as he ought to be.
There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world.
Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies.
Life would be as insupportable without the prospect of death, as it would be without sleep.
The most certain mode of making people content with us is to make them content with themselves.
