No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.
It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.
All humans are hypocrites; the biggest hypocrite of all is the one who claims to detest hypocrisy
Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates -- but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.
However boldly their warm blood was spilt,
Their life was shame, their epitaph was guilt;
And this they knew and felt, at least the one,
The leader of the hand he had undone,--
Who, born for better things, had madly set
His life upon a cast, which linger'd yet.
Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction, But, like the shark
and tiger, must have prey; Although his anatomical construction Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way, Your laboring people think beyond all
question, Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion.
Sofas 'twas half a sin to sit upon, So costly were they; carpets, every stitch Of workmanship so rare, they make you wish You could glide o'er them like a golden fish.
Sofas 'twas half a sin to sit upon, So costly were they; carpets, every stitch
Of workmanship so rare, they make you wish You could glide o'er them like a golden fish.
Romances paint at full length people's wooings, but only give a bust of marriages: but no one cares for matrimonial cooings
Parent of golden dreams, Romance! Auspicious queen of childish joys, Who lead'st along, in airy dance, Thy votive train of girls and boys.
The busy have no time for tears.
A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover - but will sooner or later find a tyrant
Tis pity wine should be so deleterious, for tea and coffee leave us much more serious.
Wine cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires the young, makes weariness forget his toil.
Explaining metaphysics to the nation - / I wish he would explain his explanation.
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