Desultory Thoughts and Reflections
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“Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.”
“Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.”
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“Our weaknesses are the indigenous produce of our characters; but our strength is the forced fruit.”
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“To appear rich, we become poor.”
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“There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world.”
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“Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.”
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“Superstition is but the fear of belief.”
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“Bores: People who talk of themselves, when you are thinking only of yourself.”
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“Life would be as insupportable without the prospect of death, as it would be without sleep.”
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“Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.”
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“The future: A consolation for those who have no other.”
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“The infirmities of genius are often mistaken for its privileges.”
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“Reason dissipates the illusions of life, but does not console us for their departure.”
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“Wit is the lightning of the mind, reason the sunshine, and reflection the moonlight.”
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“Pleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys.”
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“To amend mankind, moralists should show them man, not as he is, but as he ought to be.”
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“Men who would persecute others for religious opinions, prove the errors of their own.”
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“Satire, like conscience, reminds us of what we often wish to forget.”
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“Spring is the season of hope, and autumn is that of memory.”
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“We have a reading, a talking, and a writing public. When shall we have a thinking?”
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“Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies.”
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