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All Quotes Collection
"Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved."
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"Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed."
30
"Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body."
37
"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."
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"Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel."
14
"Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object."
58
"A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation."
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"Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner."
38
"We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us."
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"Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity."
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"With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts."
40
"When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations."
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"Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble."
14
"Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!"
40
"True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions."
19
"No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority."
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"Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature."
43
"Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below."
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"Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue."
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"Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity."
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"Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures."
46
"Why do I need succession planning? I'm very alert, I'm very vibrant. I have no intention to retire."
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"I've already figured out when I'm going to be No. 2 and No. 1."
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"I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?"
40
"If I were to retire, I would keep my family's interest in the company the same and say, Don't sell."
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