Now or never was the time.
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
A man cannot dress without his ideas get clothed at the same time.
Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave it is not in his nature.
Only the brave know how to forgive it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
An English man does not travel to see English men.
In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
Every time a man smiles and much more when he laughs it adds something to his fragment of life.
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites ihay be the worst - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting.
Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.
Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.
So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.
People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world tho' the cant of hypocrites may be the worst the cant of criticism is the most tormenting.
We don't love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done them
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