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Henry Home, Lord Kames quotes: Whoever appears to have much cunning has in reality very little; being deficient in the essential article, which is, to hide cunning.

Whoever appears to have much cunning has in reality very little; being deficient in the essential article, which is, to hide cunning.

Henry Home, Lord Kames quotes: No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.

No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.

Henry Home, Lord Kames quotes: As nice as we are in love, we forgive more faults in that than in friendship.

As nice as we are in love, we forgive more faults in that than in friendship.

Henry Home, Lord Kames quotes: Seldom do we talk of ourselves with success. If I condemn myself, more is believed than is expressed; if I praise myself, much less.

Seldom do we talk of ourselves with success. If I condemn myself, more is believed than is expressed; if I praise myself, much less.

Henry Home, Lord Kames quotes: We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment.

We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment.

Henry Home, Lord Kames quotes: Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature.

Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature.

Henry Home, Lord Kames quotes: Beauty loses its relish; the graces never.

Beauty loses its relish; the graces never.

Henry Home, Lord Kames quotes: Great wants proceed from great wealth; but they are undutiful children, for they sink wealth down to poverty.

Great wants proceed from great wealth; but they are undutiful children, for they sink wealth down to poverty.

Henry Home, Lord Kames quotes: Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.

Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.

Henry Home, Lord Kames quotes: Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.

Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.

Henry Home, Lord Kames quotes: The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel.

The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel.

Henry Home, Lord Kames quotes: Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous, than virtuous love.

Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous, than virtuous love.

Henry Home, Lord Kames quotes: An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands.

An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands.

Henry Home, Lord Kames quotes: The coward reckons himself cautious, the miser frugal.

The coward reckons himself cautious, the miser frugal.

Henry Home, Lord Kames quotes: Every man, however little, makes a figure in his own eyes.

Every man, however little, makes a figure in his own eyes.

Henry Home, Lord Kames quotes: Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant.

Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant.

Henry Home, Lord Kames quotes: To a zealot every one of his own sect is a saint, while the most upright of a different sect are to him children of perdition.

To a zealot every one of his own sect is a saint, while the most upright of a different sect are to him children of perdition.

Henry Home, Lord Kames quotes: Who hath not courage to revenge will never find generosity to forgive.

Who hath not courage to revenge will never find generosity to forgive.

Henry Home, Lord Kames quotes: False praise is always confined to the great.

False praise is always confined to the great.

Henry Home, Lord Kames quotes: If you should escape the censure of others, hope not to escape your own.

If you should escape the censure of others, hope not to escape your own.

Henry Home, Lord Kames quotes: Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way.

Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way.

Henry Home, Lord Kames quotes: The mind is never more highly gratified than in contemplating a natural landscape.

The mind is never more highly gratified than in contemplating a natural landscape.

Henry Home, Lord Kames quotes: Even dress is apt to inflame a man's opinion of himself.

Even dress is apt to inflame a man's opinion of himself.

Henry Home, Lord Kames quotes: A great mind will neither give an affront nor bear it.

A great mind will neither give an affront nor bear it.