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Lord, please give me big ears and a thoughtful mind. Teach me to ask well and see it through other’s eyes.
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe, how much it altered her person for the worse.
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday
It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.
It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
I wore bulletproof vests, and my bodyguards had the option of having bulletproof vests - I bought five sets.
The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada.
Norwich is a very fine city, and the castle, which stands in the middle of it, on a hill, is truly majestic.
Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.
Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.
A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.
Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
Allowing God to charge our lives that we may empower people around us to live In a greater relationship with him.
Usually the way to screw up some good fishing is to have a tournament. This just keeps getting better and better.
When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not.
Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.
Apollo was held the god of physic and sender of disease. Both were originally the same trade, and still continue.
Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.
When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.
Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.
It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.
To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.
Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight to vex.
If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
Leadership is building a bridge that connects the vision with the purpose, in order to empower those who are around us.
But, to protect men, we must have the power of controlling them. We must first enslave them before we can protect them.
The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.
Church should be a place where love is evident, God delivers, lives are changed, hearts are healed, and families restored.
Our government has made a whole lot of promises that, in the long run, it cannot possibly keep without huge tax increases.
Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.
A full belly to the labourer was, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only source of real public peace.
DEAL is a most villainous place. It is full of filthy-looking people.Great desolationof abomination has beengoing on here.
For though, in nature, depth and height Are equally held infinite: In poetry, the height we know; 'Tis only infinite below.
It is with wits as with razors, which are never so apt to cut those they are employed on as when they have lost their edge.
All Middlesex is ugly, notwithstanding the millions upon millionswhichit iscontinuallysucking up fromtherestof the kingdom.
It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.