Sir, are you so grossly ignorant of human nature, as not to know that a man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.
Sir, are you so grossly ignorant of human nature, as not to know that a man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.
It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
And then, Sir, there is this consideration, that if the abuse be enormous, Nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure.
Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature.
Sherry is dull, naturally dull but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an access of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature. Of Thomas Sheridan (17191788), actor, lecturer, and author.
Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.
Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.
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