Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.
If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.
Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to believe. And of all the signs of a corrupt heart and a feeble head, the tendency of incredulity is the surest. Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.
It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves, either in imagination or practice.
Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up!
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
The strong and virtuous admit no destiny.
Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.
To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven.
Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame - to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.
Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.
Tears are akin to prayer - Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.
Success never needs an excuse.
I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.
A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others; we are not chafed and galled by cares which are tyrannical because original. We are fulfilling our proper destiny, and those around us feel the sunshine of our own hearts.
Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?
Love is on the verge of hate each time it stoops for pardon.
Let youth cherish sleep, the happiest of earthly boons, while yet it is at its command; for there cometh the day to all when "neither the voice of the lute nor the birds" shall bring back the sweet slumbers that fell on their young eyes as unbidden as the dews.
Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.
Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.
As the excitement of the game increases, prudence is sure to diminish.
Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.
Despair makes victims sometimes victors.
He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.
The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine mission.
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