~ Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard, there is scarcely one that meets with less success than affectation, or a perpetual disguise of the real character by fictitious appearances ~  ~ Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror; in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody of the groves, and the eye of benevolence sparkles at the sight of happiness and plenty: in winter, compassion melts at universal calamity, and the tear of softness starts at the wailing of hunger and the cries of the creation in distress ~ ~ Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil. ~ ~ He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper. ~ ~ Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him
more pleasing to others. ~ ~ Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
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Hope is itself a species of happiness and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
~ ~ Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. ~ ~ Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price. ~ ~ Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages. ~ ~ Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it ~ ~ Where there is no difficulty there is no praise ~ ~ Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. ~ ~ Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt ~ ~ The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence. ~ Most Popular Topics:
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