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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world--they
suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
Topic: Authorship
Source: Summaries of Thought--Authors
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
Topic: Cheerfulness
Source: None
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One who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. He has lain down to die, and the grass is already over him.
Topic: Contentment
Source: None
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
Topic: Courtesy
Source: None
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The more gross the fraud, the more glibly will it go down and the more greedily will it be swallowed, since folly will always find faith wherever imposters will find impudence.
Topic: Credulity
Source: None
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
Topic: Custom
Source: None
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The worst deluded are the self-deluded.
Topic: Delusion
Source: None
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
Topic: Delusion
Source: None
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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
Topic: Desire
Source: None
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
Topic: Discretion
Source: None
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
Topic: Economy
Source: None
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
Topic: Enthusiasm
Source: None
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Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
Topic: Fame
Source: None
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
Topic: Future
Source: None
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
Topic: Mind
Source: None
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
Topic: Passion
Source: None
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
Topic: Perseverance
Source: None
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In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
Topic: Rivalry
Source: None
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Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity.
Topic: Simplicity
Source: None
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Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity.
Topic: Taste
Source: None
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Bad taste is a species of bad morals.
Topic: Taste
Source: None
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The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.
Topic: Thought
Source: None
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
Topic: Unconscious
Source: None
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Mind unemployed is mind un-enjoyed.
Topic: Unemployment
Source: None
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The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to quote another's wit.
Topic: Wit
Source: None
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