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Angry men make themselves beds of nettles.

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

The most innocent heart is generally the most credulous.

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.

Wicked words are the prelude to wicked deeds.

She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

I will be a Friend to you, and you shall take care of my Linen

Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

The wisest among us is a fool in some things.

A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct that warranted his presumption.

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.

I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free.

I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in general.

But these great minds cannot avois doing extraordinary things!

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake.

People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.

A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.

There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.

Distresses, however heavy at the time, appear light, and even joyous, to the reflecting mind, when worthily overcome.

What honest man would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?

Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.

For my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman.
To be sure she must be an atheist!

For God's sake *what*, sir? How can God's sake and your sake, I pray you, be the same?"
~Clarissa Harlowe~

Let this expiate!

An honest heart is not to be trusted with itself in bad company.

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

The person who is worthiest to live, is fittest to die.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

An acknowledged love sanctifies every little freedom; and little freedoms beget great ones.

Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.

A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

The first vice of the first woman was curiosity, and it runs through the whole sex.

We are all very ready to believe what we like.

A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.

He only who gave life has a power over it.

Beauty is an accidental and transient good.

The first step in achieving prosperity and wealth is learning to appreciate what you already have.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

Air and manners are more expressive than words.

The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.

Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.

Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.

Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.

To be courted as princesses for a few weeks, in order to be treated as slaves for the rest of our lives.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.

Tired of myself longing for what I have not

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?

All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.

Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.

Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.

I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.

A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.

Good men must be affectionate men.

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?

This, I suppose, makes me such a sauce-box, and bold-face, and a creature, and all because I won't be a sauce-box and bold-face indeed.

Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.

Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,
all in one.

But these great minds cannot avoid doing extraordinary things!

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.

Tho' Beauty is generally the creature of fancy, yet are there some who will be Beauties in every eye.

Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.

You cannot imagine my emotion behind the yew hedge ...

Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge.

Well, my story, surely, would furnish out a surprising kind of novel, if it were to be well told.

Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.

Over-niceness may be under-niceness.

Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

The unhappy never want enemies.

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

Virtue only is the true beauty.

Those who doubt themselves most generally err least.

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

A fop takes great pains to hang out a sign, by his dress, of what he has within.

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.