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He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
Lectures to Young Men (1844)
Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.
Lectures to Young Men (1844)
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes — openly bad and secretly bad.
Lectures to Young Men (1844)
Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.
Lectures to Young Men (1844)