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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
No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.
— Henry Home, Lord Kames
As nice as we are in love, we forgive more faults in that than in friendship.
— Henry Home, Lord Kames
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
— William James
I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.
— J. Michael Straczynski
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
An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands.
— Henry Home, Lord Kames
Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous, than virtuous love.
— Henry Home, Lord Kames
The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel.
— Henry Home, Lord Kames
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
Movies are the art form most like man's imagination.
— Francis Ford Coppola
Home," he said softly. "If there is a more beautiful word in any language, I do not know it.
— Mary Doria Russell
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
Great wants proceed from great wealth; but they are undutiful children, for they sink wealth down to poverty.
— Henry Home, Lord Kames
Beauty loses its relish; the graces never.
— Henry Home, Lord Kames
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
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
False praise is always confined to the great.
— Henry Home, Lord Kames
Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.
— Margaret Halsey
A great mind will neither give an affront nor bear it.
— Henry Home, Lord Kames
Even dress is apt to inflame a man's opinion of himself.
— Henry Home, Lord Kames
The mind is never more highly gratified than in contemplating a natural landscape.
— Henry Home, Lord Kames
The right timing is not always our timing.
— Joyce Meyer
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
If you should escape the censure of others, hope not to escape your own.
— Henry Home, Lord Kames
The coward reckons himself cautious, the miser frugal.
— Henry Home, Lord Kames
Who hath not courage to revenge will never find generosity to forgive.
— Henry Home, Lord Kames
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
When a guy is into you, he lets you know it. He calls, he shows up, he wants to meet your friends, he can't keep his eyes or hands off of you.
— Greg Behrendt
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
Spend time to love yourself and the aging process involved. Your growth vintage is priceless.
— Gloria D. Gonsalves
Every man, however little, makes a figure in his own eyes.
— Henry Home, Lord Kames