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| The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased. |
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| The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope |
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| The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety |
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| The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning |
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| The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate |
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| The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it. |
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| The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labors, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it |
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| The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endue it. |
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| The people is a very heterogeneous and confused mass of the wealthy and the poor, the wise and the foolish, the good and the bad |
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| The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment |
| Disappointment; Joy |
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| The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation. |
| Happiness; Past |
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| The prosperity of a people is proportionate to the number of hands and minds usefully employed |
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| The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside |
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| The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain. |
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| The realisation that one is to be hanged in the morning concentrates the mind wonderfully. |
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| The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. |
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| The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public |
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| The speculatist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less |
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| The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little. |
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| The supreme end of education is expert discernment of all things- the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit. |
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