“Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile”
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“Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile”
“It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others”
“No vices are so incurable as those which men are apt to glory in”
“Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature”
“Our disputants put me in mind of the scuttle fish, that when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens all the water about him, till he becomes invisible”
“Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable”
“Learning is pedantry, wit, impertinence, virtue itself looked like weakness, and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice”
“Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner”
“It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution”
“The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.”
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than 10,000 tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love”
“To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant”
“Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness”
“In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in the dark wood where the true way was wholly lost”
“For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense”
“The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness”
“Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained”
“The weak in courage is strong in cunning”
“Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted”
“Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven”