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A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction an assent, an enraged eye makes beauty deformed. This little member gives life to every other part about us; and I believe the story of Argus implies no more than that the eye is in every part; that is to say, every other part would be mutilated were not its force represented more by the eye than even by itself.



Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world and ignorance of mankind.



If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.



True benevolence, or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.



Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable



Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable



Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The hypocrite would not be at so much pains to put on the appearance of virtue, if he did not know it was the most proper and effectual means to gain the love and esteem of mankind.



Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.



Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity



No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.



To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.



An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience



Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.



There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol



The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.








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