Admiration is a very short-lived passion that decays on growing familiar with its object unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries and kept alive by perpetual miracles rising up to its view.
The Gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength, and throw our into practice virtues that shun the day, and lie concealed in the smooth seasons and the calms of life.
The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which, a good thing may pass over unobserved, or lost among commissions of bankrupt.
When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like.
There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.
Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful.
Man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and next to escape the censures of the world. If the last interfere with the first it should be entirely neglected. But if not, there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind than to see its own approbation seconded by the applause of the public.
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