“Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.”
Education“Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.”
Death“Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.”
Education“Grace in women has more effect than beauty.”
Beauty“We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.”
Nature“Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.”
Best“The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.”
Art“Rules and models destroy genius and art.”
Art“The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.”
Knowledge“To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.”
Friendship“You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.”
Travel“The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.”
Best“Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.”
Teacher“Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.”
Alone“Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.”
Art“An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may.”
Truth“The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.”
Hope“To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.”
Wisdom“Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.”
Nature“There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.”
Respect“Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.”
Peace“I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.”
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