“The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.”
Success“Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.”
Beauty“The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.”
Success“There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.”
Religion“If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.”
Faith“To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.”
Wisdom“Grace in women has more effect than beauty.”
Beauty“Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.”
Fear“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“It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.”
Travel“To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.”
Age“A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.”
Respect“Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.”
Alone“Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.”
Poetry“Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!”
Friendship“The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.”
Art“We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.”
Nature“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“Rules and models destroy genius and art.”
Art“I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.”
Home“Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.”
Food“The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.”
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