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• Nothing so uncertain as general reputation. A man injures me from humor, passion, or interest; hates me because he has injured me; and speaks ill of me because he hates me.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Hate, Passion, Men

  Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.50

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• Genius is allied to a warm and inflammable constitution; delicacy of taste, to calmness and sedateness. Hence it is common to find genius in one who is a prey to every passion.

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  Passion, Genius, Delicacy

  Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1817). “Elements of criticism [by H. Home].”, p.11

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• The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel.

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  Revenge, Men, Savages

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• Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Pain, Pleasure, Fortune

  Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.32

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• Whoever appears to have much cunning has in reality very little; being deficient in the essential article, which is, to hide cunning.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Reality, Essentials, Littles

  Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1775). “Introduction to the art of thinking. Third edition. Enlarged with additional maxims and illustrations. [By Henry Home, Lord Kames.]”, p.13

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• Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.

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  Passion, Solitude, World

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• False praise is always confined to the great.

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  Praise, Confined

  Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1775). “Introduction to the art of thinking. Third edition. Enlarged with additional maxims and illustrations. [By Henry Home, Lord Kames.]”, p.31

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• Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Men, May, Golden

  Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.96

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• Death, whether it regards ourselves or others, appears less terrible in war than at home. The cries of women and children, friends in anguish, a dark room, dim tapers, priests and physicians, are what affect us the most on the death-bed. Behold us already more than half dead and buried.

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  Death, Children, War

  Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1789). “Introduction to the Art of Thinking. Fourth edition, enlarged, etc”, p.46

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• A relation is formed betwixt every man and the fruits of his own labour, the very thing we call property, which he himself is sensible of, and of which every other is equally sensible. Yours and mine are terms in all languages, familiar among savages, and understood even by children. This is a fact, which every human creature can testify.

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  Children, Men, Savages

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• Seldom do we talk of ourselves with success. If I condemn myself, more is believed than is expressed; if I praise myself, much less.

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  Praise, Egotism, Ifs

  Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.89

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• As nice as we are in love, we forgive more faults in that than in friendship.

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  Forgiveness, Nice, Forgiving

  Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1775). “Introduction to the art of thinking. Third edition. Enlarged with additional maxims and illustrations. [By Henry Home, Lord Kames.]”, p.25

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• Every man, however little, makes a figure in his own eyes.

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  Eye, Men, Littles

  Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1789). “Introduction to the Art of Thinking. Fourth edition, enlarged, etc”, p.27

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• Great wants proceed from great wealth; but they are undutiful children, for they sink wealth down to poverty.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Children, Want, Poverty

  Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.71

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• If you should escape the censure of others, hope not to escape your own.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Should, Censure, Ifs

  Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1775). “Introduction to the art of thinking. Third edition. Enlarged with additional maxims and illustrations. [By Henry Home, Lord Kames.]”, p.3

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