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| Diligence in employments of less consequence is the most successful introduction to greater enterprises |
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| Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue. |
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| Disposition to derision and insult is awakened by the softness to foppery, the swell of insolence, the liveliness of levity, or the solemnity of grandeur; by the sprightly trip, the stately stalk, the formal strut, and the lofty mein; by gestures int |
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| Distance either of time or place is sufficient to reconcile weak minds to wonderful relations |
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| Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye. |
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| Do it now. You become successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal. |
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| Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity |
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| Do not hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind. |
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| Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want of motion: commit yourself again to the current of the world |
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| Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before him. |
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| Don't accustom yourself to use big words for little matters |
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| Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark. |
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| Dr Blair . . . asked . . . whether he thought any man of a modern age could have written such poems [Ossian] . . . `Yes, Sir, many men, many women, and many children.' |
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| Dublin, though a place much worse than London, is not so bad as Iceland. |
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| Every art has its terms, and every kind of instruction its proper style; the gravity of common critics may be tedious, but is less despicable than childish merriment |
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| Every error in human conduct must arise from ignorance in ourselves, either perpetual or temporary; and happen either because we do not know what is best and fittest, or because our knowledge is at the time of action not present to the mind |
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| Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place |
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| Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test. |
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| Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate without end |
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