Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand what is sufficient for his wants.
Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true
In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity.
The shame of fools conceals their open wounds. [Lat., Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat.]
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
Imagine every day to he 5 the last6 of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger, and fear. The hours, that come unexpectedly, will be so much the more grateful.
The more we deny ourselves, the more the gods supply our wants. [Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit, A dis plura feret.]
Be prepared to go mad with fixed rule and method.
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way.
The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.
Man is never watchful enough against dangers that threaten him every hour. [Lat., Quid quisque vitet nunquam homini satis Cautum est in horas.]
I hate the uncultivated crowd and keep them at a distance. Favour me by your tongues (keep silence). [Lat., Odi profanum vulgus et arceo. Favete linguis.]
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
A good resolve will make any port.
Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
Virtue knowing no base repulse, shines with untarnished honour; nor does she assume or resign her emblems of honour by the will of some popular breeze. [Lat., Virtus repulse nescia sordidae, Intaminatis fulget honoribus; Nec sumit aut ponit secures Arbitrio popularis aurae.]
Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
God can change the lowest to the highest, abase the proud, and raise the humble.
Why then should words challenge Eternity, When greatest men, and greatest actions die? Use may revive the obsoletest words, And banish those that now are most in vogue; Use is the judge, the law, and rule of speech.
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