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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities.
The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.
Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.
He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author.
Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.
Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.
You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married.
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.
Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.
Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.
We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.
Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.
Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.
We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.
He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt.
Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant or upon one of ordinary size.
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.
Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.
There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.
A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.
Every witticism is an inexact thought; that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.
No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
A little praise is good for a shy temper; it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others.
A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.
We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.
Circumstances form the character; but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.
I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.
The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's.
We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.
We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.