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We shall generally find that the triangular person has got into
the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, and a square
person has squeezed himself into the round hole.
Topic: Ability
Source: Sketches of Moral Philosophy
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A wise man struggling with adversity is said by some heathen
writer to be a spectacle on which the gods might look down with
pleasure.
Topic: Adversity
Source: Sermon on the Duties of the Queen
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Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
Topic: Calamity
Source: None
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Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660 The greatest curse which can be entailed upon mankind is a state of war. All the atrocious crimes committed in years of peace -- all that is spent in peace by the secret corruptions or by the thoughtless extravagances of nations -- are mere trifles compared with the gigantic evils which stalk over the world in a state of war. God is forgotten in war -- every principle of Christian charity is trampled upon.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
Topic: Confidence
Source: None
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Oh, herbaceous treat!
'Twould tempt the dying anchorite to eat;
Back to the world he'd turn his fleeting soul,
And plunge his fingers in the salad bowl;
Serenely full the epicure would say,
"Fate cannot harm me,--I have dined to-day."
Topic: Eating
Source: A Receipt for a Salad
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It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
Topic: Faith
Source: None
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Good friends are good for your health.
Topic: Friends / Friendship
Source: None
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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Topic: Goals
Source: None
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Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Topic: Happiness
Source: None
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A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
Topic: Home
Source: None
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Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no more exercise your reason if you live in the constant dread of laughter, that you can enjoy your life if you are in the constant terror of death.
Topic: Laughter
Source: None
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He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.
Topic: Learning
Source: None
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My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was
actually twelve miles from a lemon.
Topic: Lemons
Source: Lady Holland's Memoir (vol. I, p. 262)
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Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.
Topic: Letters
Source: None
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We cultivate literature on a little oat-meal.
Topic: Literature
Source: Lady Holland's Memoir (vol. I, p. 23)
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Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. Thanks to Stace -Sydney Smith.
Topic: Love
Source: None
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Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
Topic: Marriage
Source: None
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A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.
Topic: Men and Women
Source: None
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I do not mean to be disrespectful, but the attempt of the Lords
to stop the progress of reform, reminds me very forcibly of the
great storm of Sidmouth, and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs.
Partington on that occasion. In the winter of 1824, there set in
a great flood upon that town--the tide rose to an incredible
height: the waves rushed in upon the houses, and everything was
threatened with destruction. In the midst of this sublime and
terrible storm, Dame Partington, who lived upon the beach, was
seen at the door of her house with mop and pattens, trundling her
mop, squeezing out the sea water, and vigorously pushing away the
Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic was roused. Mrs. Partington's
spirit was up; but I need not tell you that the contest was
unequal. The Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington. She was
excellent at a slop or a puddle, but she should not have meddled
with a tempest.
Topic: Reform
Source: in a speech at Tuunton, Oct. 1831
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Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.
Topic: Religion / Beliefs
Source: None
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The church is the great lost and found department.
Topic: Religion / Beliefs
Source: None
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That knuckle-end of England--that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and
sulphur.
Topic: Scotland
Source: Lady Holland's Memoir (vol. II, p. 17)
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It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch
understanding.
Topic: Scotland
Source: Land Holland's Memoir (vol. I, p. 15)
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The most curious offspring of shame is shyness.
Topic: Shame
Source: Lecture on the Evil Affections
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He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
Topic: Silence
Source: None
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One of the best methods of rendering study agreeable is to live
with able men, and to suffer all those pangs of inferiority which
the want of knowledge always inflicts.
Topic: Study
Source: Second Lecture on the Conduct of the Understanding
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Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? how did
it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
Topic: Tea
Source: Lady Holland's Memoir (vol. I, p. 383)
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What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?
Topic: Universe
Source: None
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