“The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.”
Hope“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.”
Knowledge“The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.”
Hope“Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.”
Knowledge“He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.”
Courage“It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.”
Truth“Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.”
Society“All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it.”
Experience“A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.”
Good“To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.”
Great“The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.”
Future“There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.”
Great“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”
Knowledge“There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.”
Happiness“What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.”
Hope“No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.”
Food“Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.”
Death“If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.”
Great“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.”
Great“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.”
Happiness“Exercise is labor without weariness.”
Fitness“Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.”
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