• Virtues

  Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

  3.7 · 31 votes · 10 reads

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• Society

  As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

  3.7 · 9 votes · 159 reads

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• Virtues

  Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word.

  3.0 · 40 votes · 173 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.

  3.7 · 16 votes · 57 reads

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• Various

  Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.

  4.5 · 22 votes · 126 reads

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• Virtues

  Character must be kept bright as well as clean.

  4.7 · 13 votes · 29 reads

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• Society

  Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

  4.9 · 38 votes · 105 reads

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• Virtues

  Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the general run of the world.

  4.1 · 16 votes · 0 reads

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• Various

  He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.

  3.7 · 10 votes · 104 reads

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• Time

  History is but a confused heap of facts.

  3.3 · 20 votes · 158 reads

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• Feelings

  Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.

  3.3 · 16 votes · 60 reads

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• Society

  I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.

  3.8 · 18 votes · 173 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.

  4.1 · 47 votes · 41 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

  4.5 · 55 votes · 11 reads

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• Various

  If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.

  4.8 · 45 votes · 109 reads

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• Various

  In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

  3.7 · 35 votes · 136 reads

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• Feelings

  Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.

  4.2 · 20 votes · 39 reads

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• Time

  Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

  4.3 · 60 votes · 152 reads

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• Virtues

  Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

  4.3 · 18 votes · 166 reads

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• Virtues

  Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

  4.6 · 64 votes · 193 reads

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• Virtues

  Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

  3.0 · 34 votes · 194 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

  3.8 · 49 votes · 85 reads

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• Various

  Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.

  3.9 · 48 votes · 82 reads

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• Virtues

  Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

  4.1 · 20 votes · 194 reads

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• Time

  Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.

  4.1 · 63 votes · 152 reads

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• Various

  Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.

  3.0 · 29 votes · 84 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

  3.0 · 60 votes · 117 reads

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• Feelings

  Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

  4.0 · 41 votes · 87 reads

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• Virtues

  Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

  3.1 · 41 votes · 146 reads

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• Feelings

  Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.

  4.8 · 12 votes · 156 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and depend upon it, you will catch those judgments, such as they are.

  4.7 · 36 votes · 65 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.

  3.7 · 20 votes · 152 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

  4.3 · 64 votes · 120 reads

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• Society

  No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.

  4.5 · 54 votes · 178 reads

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• Art and Culture

  One should always think of what one is about: when one is learning, one should not think of play: and when one is at play, one should not think of one's learning.

  5.0 · 64 votes · 114 reads

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• Defects

  Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.

  4.2 · 38 votes · 61 reads

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• Defects

  Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.

  3.4 · 13 votes · 78 reads

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• Virtues

  Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

  3.3 · 44 votes · 166 reads

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• Virtues

  Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

  4.7 · 30 votes · 179 reads

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• Feelings

  Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.

  4.3 · 46 votes · 102 reads

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