Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.
The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.
We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.
Nature knows best, and she says, roar!
Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.
Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
We are all apt to think that an opinion that differs from our own is a prejudice.
If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.
Confidence is the best proof of love.
Remember, we can judge better by the conduct of people towards others than by their manner towards ourselves.
Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.
Health can make money, but money cannot make health.
In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.
half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.
My mother took too much, a great deal too much, care of me; she over-educated, over-instructed, over-dosed me with premature lessons of prudence: she was so afraid that I should ever do a foolish thing, or not say a wise one, that she prompted my every word, and guided my every action. So I grew up, seeing with her eyes, hearing with her ears, and judging with her understanding, till, at length, it was found out that I had not eyes, ears or understanding of my own.
Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.
No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
wit is often its own worst enemy.
tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.
It is not so easy to do good as those who have never attempted it may imagine.
It sometimes requires courage to fly from danger.
Persons not habituated to reason often argue absurdly, because, from particular instances, they deduce general conclusions, and extend the result of their limited experience of individuals indiscriminately to whole classes.
What a misfortune it isto be bornawoman!? Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable? If a ray of light break in upon us, it is but to make darkness more visible; to show usthenew limits, the Gothic structure, theimpenetrable barriers of our prison.
Justice satisfies everybody.
An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.
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