~ Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable and others extremely difficult. ~  ~ A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected. ~ ~ This is one of the disadvantages of wine: it makes a man mistake words for thought. ~ ~ Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with too much dejection ~ ~ Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained ~ ~ Judgment is forced upon us by experience ~ ~ Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation. ~ ~ The two offices of memory are collection and distribution. ~ ~ Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice. ~ ~ There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good ~ ~ Language is the only instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas. ~ ~ I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations ~ ~ The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends. ~ ~ Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment. ~ ~ The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. ~ Most Popular Topics:
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