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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
Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so.
— Sonia Johnson
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
Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast.
— Susanna Kaysen
I love my music so much, and I love what I'm doing so much that that has become my other half-rather than another person.
— Miley Cyrus
We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.
— Arthur Erickson
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
Violence is temporary, but learning is permanent.
— Patrick Hennessey
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
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
I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.
— Scott Hamilton
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
The coward reckons himself cautious, the miser frugal.
— Henry Home, Lord Kames
Every man, however little, makes a figure in his own eyes.
— Henry Home, Lord Kames
Obedience is a great danger.
— E. M. Broner
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
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
Who hath not courage to revenge will never find generosity to forgive.
— Henry Home, Lord Kames
I'm as true a Protestant, in sooth, as any fine lady that walks into church, but it's not wrong to turn sometimes to the good St. Nicholas.
— Mary Mapes Dodge
False praise is always confined to the great.
— Henry Home, Lord Kames
If you should escape the censure of others, hope not to escape your own.
— Henry Home, Lord Kames
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
The mind is never more highly gratified than in contemplating a natural landscape.
— Henry Home, Lord Kames
Learn to recognise the mother in Evil, Terror, Sorrow, Denial, as well as in Sweetness and in Joy.
— Swami Vivekananda
Even dress is apt to inflame a man's opinion of himself.
— Henry Home, Lord Kames
A great mind will neither give an affront nor bear it.
— Henry Home, Lord Kames