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Ingratitude is abhorred by God and man.
— Roger L'Estrange
Avarice is insatiable, and is always pushing on for more.
— Roger L'Estrange
Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain.
— Roger L'Estrange
Live and let live is the rule of common justice.
— Roger L'Estrange
He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy.
— Roger L'Estrange
He that serves God for money will serve the Devil for better wages.
— Roger L'Estrange
A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal
— Roger L'Estrange
Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them.
— Roger L'Estrange
Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe, and make themselves the common enemies of mankind.
— Roger L'Estrange
Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.
— Roger L'Estrange
Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.
— Roger L'Estrange
There are braying men in the world, as well as braying asses; for what is loud and senseless talking any other than away of braying?
— Roger L'Estrange
You cannot have a deep sympathy with both man & nature. Those qualities which bring you near to the one estrange you from the other.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.
— Roger L'Estrange
Some natures are so sour and ungrateful that they are never to be obliged.
— Roger L'Estrange
The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.
— Roger L'Estrange
The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.
— Roger L'Estrange
Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.
— Roger L'Estrange
So long as we stand in need of a benefit, there is nothing dearer to us; nor anything cheaper when we have received it.
— Roger L'Estrange
There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may gain his point.
— Roger L'Estrange
One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.
— Heath L'Estrange
The cankered passion of envy is nothing akin to the silly envy of the ass.L'Estrange,Fab.xxxviii.
— Samuel Johnson
Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.
— Roger L'Estrange
The very soul of the slothful does effectually but lie drowsing in his body, and the whole man is totally given up to his senses.
— Roger L'Estrange
The lowest boor may laugh on being tickled, but a man must have intelligence to be amused by wit.
— Roger L'Estrange
The fairest blossoms of pleasantry thrive best where the sun is not strong enough to scorch, nor the soil rank enough to corrupt.
— Roger L'Estrange
It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss.
— Heath L'Estrange
He that contemns a shrew to the degree of not descending to words with her does worse than beat her.
— Roger L'Estrange
The more delicate and ambitious the soul, the further do dreams estrange it from possible things.
— Charles Baudelaire
Resolve to see the world on the sunny side and you have almost won the battle at the outset.
— Roger L'Estrange
Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course.
— Roger L'Estrange
Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.
— Roger L'Estrange
We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end.
— Roger L'Estrange
Nothing is so fierce but love will soften; nothing so sharp-sighted in other matters but it will throw a mist before its eyes.
— Roger L'Estrange
...There is no worse way to abuse a man's patriotism than to estrange him from his homeland, be it his ancestral or adopted land...
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
A body may well lay too little as too much stress upon a dream; but the less he heed them the better.
— Roger L'Estrange
All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one.
— Roger L'Estrange
He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the ink-pot.
— Roger L'Estrange
Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils.
— Roger L'Estrange
A plodding diligence brings us sooner to our journey's end than a fluttering way of advancing by starts.
— Roger L'Estrange
Wickedness may prosper for a while.
— Roger L'Estrange
It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit.
— Roger L'Estrange
Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions.
— Roger L'Estrange
There is no opposing brutal force to the stratagems of human reason.
— Roger L'Estrange
Tis not necessity, but opinion, that makes men miserable; and when we come to be fancy-sick, there's no cure.
— Roger L'Estrange
Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamation of them.
— Roger L'Estrange
By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them.
— Roger L'Estrange
It must be an industrious youth that provides against age; and he that fools away the one must either beg or starve in the other.
— Heath L'Estrange
The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure.
— Roger L'Estrange
Of all injustice that is the greatest which goes under the name of law.
— Heath L'Estrange