Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Quotes - Page 2

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• Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Pride, Silence, Physicians

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• We never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand we mark such ideas as strike us by their novelty, or correct those we already possess.

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  Reading, Hands, Ideas

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• Fools with bookish knowledge art children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves, and put others in pain.

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  Art, Hurt, Children

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• Leisure, the highest happiness upon earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. Indolence and indifference do not always afford leisure; for true leisure is frequently found in that interval of relaxation which divides a painful duty from an agreeable recreation; a toilsome business from the more agreeable occupations of literature and philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Perfect, Solitude

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• Time is never more misspent than while we declaim against the want of it; all our actions are then tinctured with peevishness. The yoke of life is certainly the least oppressive when we carry it with good-humor; and in the shades of rural retirement, when we have once acquired a resolution to pass our hours with economy, sorrowful lamentations on the subject of time misspent and business neglected never torture the mind.

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  Time, Retirement, Mind

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• Unless the habit leads to happiness the best habit is to contract none.

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  Habit, Contracts

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• The quarter of an hour before dinner is the worst that suitors can choose.

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  Time, Suitors, Dinner

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• Laugh as loud as you please at your companion's wit; do not even smile at his folly.

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  Laughing, Advice, Loud

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• Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

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  Forgiveness, Want, Littles

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• There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect

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  Hate, Hatred, Affection

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• The sluggard is a living insensible.

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  Indolence, Insensible

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• Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a small square of ivory interests more than the loss of an empire, or the ruin of an unoffending group of infants, and their nearest relatives.

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  Passion, Loss, Gambling

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• Egotism is more like an offense, than a crime; though it is allowable to speak of yourself, provided nothing is advanced in favor; but I cannot help suspecting that those who abuse themselves are, in reality, angling for approbation.

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  Reality, Abuse, Favors

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• Wit, to be well defined, must be defined by wit itself; then it will be worth listening to.

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  Listening, Wit, Wells

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• There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man's desires, he cannot live long enough; measure by his good deeds, and he has not lived long enough; measure by his evil deeds, and he has lived too long.

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  Life, Men, Long

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• Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties; the sluggard is a living insensible.

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  Sloth, Faculty, Insensible

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• The rich and luxurious may claim an exclusive right to those pleasures which are capable of being purchased by pelf, in which the mind has no enjoyment, and which only afford a temporary relief to languor by steeping the senses in forgetfulness; but in the precious pleasures of the intellect, so easily accessible by all mankind, the great have no exclusive privilege; for such enjoyments are only to be procured by our own industry.

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  Mind, Relief, May

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• The human mind, in proportion as it is deprived of external resources, sedulously labors to find within itself the means of happiness, learns to rely with confidence on its own exertions, and gains with greater certainty the power of being happy.

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  Mean, Mind, Gains

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• The necessities that exist are in general created by the superfluities that are enjoyed.

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  Enjoyed

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• Family pride entertains many unsocial opinions.

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  Pride, Opinion

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• Economy is an excellent lure to betray people into expense.

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  People, Economy, Excellent

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• One ought to love society, if he wishes to enjoy solitude. It is a social nature that solitude works upon with the most various power. If one is misanthropic, and betakes himself to loneliness that he may get away from hateful things, solitude is a silent emptiness to him.

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  Loneliness, Solitude, Wish

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• The love of solitude, when cultivated in the morn of life, elevates the mind to a noble independence, but to acquire the advantages which solitude is capable of affording, the mind must not be impelled to it by melancholy and discontent, but by a real distaste to the idle pleasures of the world, a rational contempt for the deceitful joys of life, and just apprehensions of being corrupted and seduced by its insinuating and destructive gayeties.

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  Real, Joy, Solitude

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• Take care to be an economist in prosperity. There is no fear of your being one in adversity.

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  Adversity, Advice, Care

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• Many species of wit are quite mechanical; these are the favorites of witlings, whose fame in words scarce outlives the remembrance of their funeral ceremonies.

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  Remembrance, Funeral, Fame

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