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William Hazlitt
Prosperity is a great teacher;
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
84
Muhammad
It is better to sit
It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad; and it is, better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent; but silence is better than idle words.
42
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We deliberate about the parcels
We deliberate about the parcels of life, but not about life itself, and so we arrive all unawares at its different epochs, and have the trouble of beginning all again. And so finally it is that we do not walk as men confidently towards death, but let death come suddenly upon us.
97
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The best teacher is the
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
98
Muhammad
The best richness is the
The best richness is the richness of the soul.
27
Anna Louise Strong
To fall in love is
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
66
Jack Holland
Gossip is always a personal
Gossip is always a personal confession of malice or imbecility; it is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are neighborhoods where it rages like a pest; churches are split in pieces by it, and neighbor made enemies for life. Let the young avoid or cure it while they may.
24
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Such as the chain of
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
131
Muhammad
Kindness is a mark of
Kindness is a mark of faith, and whoever is not kind has no faith.
54
Victor Hugo
The greatest happiness of life
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
36
A. Poincelot
Good taste is the flower
Good taste is the flower of good sense.
18
Simonides
A man cannot possess anything
A man cannot possess anything that is better than a good wife, or anything that is worse than a bad one.
45
Muhammad
Do you know what is
Do you know what is better than charity and fasting and prayer? It is keeping peace and good relations between people, as quarrels and bad feelings destroy mankind.
64
T. S. Eliot
We shall never cease from
We shall never cease from exploration
219
Henry Fielding
A truly elegant taste is
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
65
Sir P Sidney
He travels safe and not
He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.
26
Muhammad
He is not of us
He is not of us who is not affectionate to the little ones, and does not respect the old; and he is not of us, who does not order which is lawful, and prohibits that which is unlawful.
27
T. S. Eliot
Where is the wisdom we
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
215
Joseph Addison
I think I may define
I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.
23
Sir Thomas Browne
There is a rabble among
There is a rabble among the gentry as well as the commonalty; a sort of plebeian heads whose fancy moves with the same wheel as these men?in the same level with mechanics, though their fortunes do sometimes gild their infirmities and their purses compound for their follies.
28
Muhammad
Much silence and a good
Much silence and a good disposition, there are no two things better than these.
49
Count Oxenstierna
Dost thou not know, my
Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?
25
Sir Thos Overbury
The man who has not
The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato?the only good belonging to him is underground.
29
Francis Quarles
If thy words be too
If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thinks he can never speak enough, may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.
97