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" Actions are visible, though motives are secret. "
Though
Visible
Actions
" Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself. "
Adversity
Most
Man
" Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us. "
Think
Leads
Us
" A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. "
May
Fly
Still
" Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own. "
She
Own
Only
" Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find? "
Happy
Be Happy
Better
" All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil. "
Evil
Great
Poverty
" All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it. "
Will
Against
Experience
" All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. "
Better
Enjoy
Him
" Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble. "
Absurdity
Imitation
Cannot
" Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess. "
Life
Man
Every Man
" A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. "
Better
Dinner
Man
" A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. "
May
Nothing
Anything
" A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself. "
Himself
Ruined
Man
" A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good. "
Him
Man
Task
" A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. "
More
Anything
Man
" A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority. "
Been
Man
Conscious
" A man will turn over half a library to make one book. "
Will
Library
Turn
" At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest. "
Time
Earnest
" A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. "
Wise Man
Ambition
Man
" A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. "
Wise
Wise Man
Man
" Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives. "
Married
Marriage
Men
" Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. "
Ship
Jail
Drowned
" Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. "
Truth
Gold
Knowledge
" Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen. "
Should
Like
Friends
" Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all. "
You
Books
Carry
" Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed. "
Part
Which
Value
" By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show. "
Life
Seeing
Show
" By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time. "
She
Happy
Man
" Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. "
Men
Quotation
World
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