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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.

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I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to...

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be...

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

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