“Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed.”
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“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.”
“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason.”
“Resolve to spend a certain number of hours every day amongst your books.”
“Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.”
“Power pleases the violent and proud: wealth delights the placid and the timorous.”
“Happiness must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.”
“Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species.”
“I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.”
“Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.”
“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.”
“Discretion is a perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.”
“Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.”
“Some virtues are only seen in affliction and some in prosperity.”
“Death only closes a man's reputation, and determines it as good or bad.”
“Upon the whole, a contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.”
“A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity in bondage.”
“Music, the greatest good that mortals know, and all of heaven we have below.”
“The bell strikes one. We take no note of time but from its loss.”