239 quotes
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Misattributed
Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
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Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.
Disputed
A little nonsense now and then
Is relished by the wisest men.
Misattributed
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
Disputed
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
Misattributed
If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
Disputed
With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.
Misattributed This is attributed to Addison in The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1993)
When you are at Rome, live as Romans live.
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To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Disputed
Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.
Misattributed
He that would pass the latter part of life with honour and decency, must, when he is young, consider that he shall one day be old; and remember, when he is old, that he has once been young.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.
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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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Education...is a companion which no misfortunes can depress, no clime destroy, no enemy alienate, no despotism enslave: at home a friend, abroad an introduction, in solitude a solace, in society an ornament: it chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once a grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.
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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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