in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
Pleasure consists in the harmony between the specific excitability of a living creature and the exciting causes correspondent thereto.
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The happiness of mankind is the end of virtue, and truth is the knowledge of the means; which he will never seriously attempt to discover who has not habitually interested himself in the welfare of others.
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However irregular and desultory his talk, there is method in the fragments.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad. A madman is properly so defined.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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It is absolutely necessary to recollect that the age in which Shakspeare lived was one of great abilities applied to individual and prudential purposes, and not an age of high moral feeling and lofty principle, which gives a man of genius the power of thinking of all things in reference to all. If, then, we should find that Shakspeare took these materials as they were presented to him, and yet to all effectual purposes produced the same grand result as others attempted to produce in an age so much more favourable, shall we not feel and acknowledge the purity and holiness of genius—a light which, however it might shine on a dunghill, was as pure as the divine influence which created all the beauty of nature?
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There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government, is either to fall by the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or with them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant.
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In what way, or by what manner of working, God changes a soul from evil to good, how He impregnates the barren rock—the priceless gems and gold—is to the human mind an impenetrable mystery in all cases alike.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
A maxim is a conclusion upon observation of matters of fact, and is merely speculative; a "principle" carries knowledge within itself, and is prospective.
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Posted by: Silvana Stremiz
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Moods)
The best physician is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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