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Nature's hasty conscience.
Justice satisfies everybody.
wit is often its own worst enemy.
Confidence is the best proof of love.
Nature knows best, and she says, roar!
there is no reasoning with imagination.
How success changes the opinion of men!
Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.
It sometimes requires courage to fly from danger.
Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.
An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.
Health can make money, but money cannot make health.
I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.
Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.
tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.
The everlasting quotation-lover dotes on the husks of learning.
Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.
Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.
No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.
Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.
Obtain power, then, by all means; power is the law of man; make it yours.
how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.
The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.
Illness was a sort of occupation to me, and I was always sorry to get well.
It is not so easy to do good as those who have never attempted it may imagine.
The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
Let menot, even inmyownmind, committheinjustice of taking a speck for the whole.
We are all apt to think that an opinion that differs from our own is a prejudice.
Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.
why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?
Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.
A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it.
We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.
Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life.
Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.
Home! With what different sensations different people pronounce and hear that word pronounced!
sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.
How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?
Come when you're called; And do as you're bid; Shut the door after you; And you'll never be chid.
when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.
Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.
The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.
The Irish sometimes make and keep a vow against whiskey; these vows are usually limited to a short time.
In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.
Remember, we can judge better by the conduct of people towards others than by their manner towards ourselves.
The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.
The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law.
half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.