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And what after all, is death?? 'Tis but a cessation from mortal life; 'tis but the finishing of an appointed course; the refreshing inn after a fatiguing journey; the end of a life of cares and troubles; and, if happy, the beginning of a life of immortal happiness.
O how can wicked men seem so steady and untouched with such black hearts, while poor innocents stand like malefactors before them!
Wicked words are the prelude to wicked deeds.
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.
Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary.
A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.
What we look upon as our greatest unhappiness in a difficulty we are involved in, may possibly be the evil hastening to its crisis, and happy days may ensue.
The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.
What honest man would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope; in matrimony, friendship upon proof.
By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.
I was exceedingly affected, says he, upon the occasion. But was ashamed to be surprised by her into such a fit of unmanly weakness-so ashamed that I was resolved to subdue it at the instant, and guard against the like for the future. Yet, at that moment, I more than half regretted that I could not permit her to enjoy a triumph which she so well deserved to glory in-her youth, her beauty, her artless innocence, and her manner, equally beyond comparison or description. But her indifference, Belford!-That she could resolve to sacrifice me to the malice of my enemies; and carry on the design in so clandestine a manner-yet love her, as I do, to frenzy!-revere her, as I do, to adoration!-These were the recollections with which I fortified my recreant heart against her-Yet, after all, if she persevere, she must conquer!-Coward, as she has made me, that never was a coward before!
A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.
Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.
Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.
A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.
In other words, such is he desire which everyone has to exculpate himself by blackening his neighbour. You and I, Belford, have been very kind to the world in furnishing it with many opportunities to gratify its devil.
Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.
Romances, in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination than to inform the judgment.
The first vice of the first woman was curiosity, and it runs through the whole sex.
Well, my story, surely, would furnish out a surprising kind of novel, if it were to be well told.
A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest.
The unhappy never want enemies.
Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.
The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.
Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.
The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.
Good men must be affectionate men.
Tho' Beauty is generally the creature of fancy, yet are there some who will be Beauties in every eye.
Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.
A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct that warranted his presumption.
Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.
The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
The person who is worthiest to live, is fittest to die.
That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures when at years of maturity.
Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.
Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?
He only who gave life has a power over it.
For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
But these great minds cannot avoid doing extraordinary things!
In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION.
Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.
The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.
There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.
Over-niceness may be under-niceness.
I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
Pray , Mr Tomlinson, be seated. He took his chair over against her. I stood behind hers, that I might give him agreed-upon signals should there be occasions for them.
A thus-A wink of the left eye was to signify, Push that point, captain.
A wink of the right, and a nod was to indicate approbation of what he said.
My forefinger held up, and biting my lip, Get off of that as fast as possible.
A right forward nod, and a frown-Swear to it Captain.
My whole spread hand, To take care not to say too much on that particuliar subject.
There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.
All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.
Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
The first step in achieving prosperity and wealth is learning to appreciate what you already have.
Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?
And pray, said I, walking on, how came I to be his Property? What Right has he in me, but such as a Thief may plead to stolen Goods?
Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.
Though a censure lies against those who are poor and proud, yet is Pride sooner to be forgiven in a poor person than in a rich one; since in the latter it is insult and arrogance; in the former, it may be a defense against temptations to dishonesty; and, if manifested on proper occasions, may indicate a natural bravery of mind, which the frowns of fortune cannot depress.
Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go.
Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory, and false religion?
I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in general.
Every thing is pretty that is young.
Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.
Many a man has been ashamed of his wicked attempts, when he has been repulsed, that would never have been ashamed of them, had he succeeded.
Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.
Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.
Platonic love is platonic nonsense.
Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.
People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.
Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.
The world, the wise world, that never is wrong itself, judges always by events. And if he should use me ill, then I shall be blamed for trusting him: if well, O then I did right, to be sure!
But how would my censurers act in my case, before the event justifies or condemns the action, is the question.
The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.
An acknowledged love sanctifies every little freedom; and little freedoms beget great ones.
Love is not a volunteer thing.
What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for!And one half of mankind tormenting the other, and being tormented themselves in tormenting!
Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.
If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.
Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.
We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.
It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.
Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.
I will bear any thing you can inflict upon me with Patience, even to the laying down of my Life, to shew my Obedience to you in other Cases; but I cannot be patient, I cannot be passive, when my Virtue is at Stake!
Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.
You are all too rich to be happy, child. For must not each of you be the constitutions of your family marry to be still richer? People who know in what their main excellence consists are not to be blamed (are they?) for cultivating and improving what they think most valuable? Is true happiness any part of your family-view? - So far from it, that none of your family but yourself could be happy were they not rich. So let them fret on, grumble and grudge, and accumulate; and wondering what ails them that they have not happiness when they have riches, think the cause is want of more; and so go on heaping up till Death, as greedy an accumulator as themselves, gathers them into his garner!
Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.
The seeds of Death are sown in us when we begin to live, and grow up till, like rampant weeds, they choak the tender flower of life.
Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.
Women's eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot get out of the house.
Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.
We are all very ready to believe what we like.
This, I suppose, makes me such a sauce-box, and bold-face, and a creature, and all because I won't be a sauce-box and bold-face indeed.
Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.
Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,
all in one.
A good man will extend his munificence to the industrious poor of all persuasions reduced by age, infirmity, or accident; to thosewho labour under incurable maladies; and to the youth of either sex, who are capable of beginning the world with advantage, but have not the means.
Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.