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When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.
Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after happiness that never existed.
That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary.
If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?
All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po.
To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.
The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed, if he has but prudence.
We are all sure of two things, at least; we shall suffer and we shall all die.
The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance.
A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year.
Villainy, when detected, never gives up, but boldly adds impudence to imposture.
Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.
Every want that stimulates the breast becomes a source of pleasure when redressed.
Our Garrick 's a salad; for in him we see Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree!
No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
See me, how calm I am. Ay, people are generally calm at the misfortunes of others.
All is not gold that glitters, Pleasure seems sweet, but proves a glass of bitters
Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centers in the mind.
True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.
We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.
The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.
Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art.
One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.
This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.
To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flames from wasting by repose.
The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish.
A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay,- A cap by night, a stocking all the day.
Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair.
A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined.
How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!
Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first best country ever is at home.
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.
Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.
And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.