Philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an errant jade on a journey.
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would take whales.
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
Ask me no question and I'll tell you no fibs.
I'll fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; prices and Lords may flourish, or may fade - A breath can make them, as a breath has made - But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, when once destroyed can never be supplied.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head should carry all it knew.
The very pink of perfection.
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
Man wants but little here below nor wants that little long.
Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, adorns and cheers our way; and still, as darker grows the night, emits a lighter ray.
He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping.
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition.
Philosophy....should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.
The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.
He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all.
Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day. But he who is in battle slain, Can never rise to fight again.
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.
To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.
At church, with meek and unaffected grace, his looks adorned the venerable place; truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
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