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A man that should call every thing by its right Name, would hardly pass the Streets without being knock'd down as a common Enemy.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750)
Malice is of a low Stature, but it hath very long Arms.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750)
Men who borrow their Opinions can never repay their Debts. They are Beggars by Nature, and can therefore never get a Stock to grow rich upon.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750)
Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz. by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer, if they break them.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750)
Most men make little other use of their Speech than to give evidence against their own Understanding.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750)
In this Age, when it is said of a Man, He knows how to live , it may be imply’d he is not very honest.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750)
If Men considered how many Things there are that Riches cannot buy, they would not be so fond of them.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750)
A Man may so overdo it in looking too far before him, that he may stumble the more for it.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750)
They who are of opinion that Money will do every thing, may very well be suspected to do every thing for Money.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750)
He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750)
It is a general Mistake to think the Men we like are good for every thing, and those we do not, good for nothing.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750)
A wise man will keep his Suspicions muzzled, but he will keep them awake.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750)
The vanity of teaching often tempteth a Man to forget he is a Blockhead.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750)
It is Ill-manners to silence a Fool, and Cruelty to let him go on.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750)
Malice, like Lust, when it is at the Height, doth not know Shame.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750)
Men take more pains to hide than to mend themselves.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750)
Modesty is oftner mistaken than any other Virtue.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750)
MISPENDING a Man's time is a kind of self-homicide, it is making Life to be of no use.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750)
A Man is to go about his own Business as if he had not a Friend in the World to help him in it.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750)
The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.
The Lady's New Year's Gift: or Advice to a Daughter (1688)