Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.
William Shenstone
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- Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.
- Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
- Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.
- Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
- The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.