It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
There is always something new out of Africa.
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
The happier the moment the shorter.
The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, And then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
No one is wise at all times.
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written in writing what deserves to be read and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.
Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
Home is where the heart is.
Truth comes out in wine.
No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.
With a grain of salt.
From the end spring new beginnings.
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© 2020 Inspirational Stories