Quotes from Treasury of Thought — Henry Home, Lord Kames
1696–1782 Scotland
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Nothing so apt to inflame passion as hopes and fears: a young woman of a calm temper and modest deportment is less apt to attract lovers, than one who is changeable and coquettish; a man of sense and gravity is less apt to succeed with a fine woman than the gay, the giddy, the fluttering coxcomb.
Treasury of Thought (1881)
Death, whether it regards ourselves or others, appears less terrible in war than at home. The cries of women and children, friends in anguish, a dark room, dim tapers, priests and physicians, are what affect us the most on the death-bed. Behold us already more than half dead and buried.
Treasury of Thought (1881)