“ Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers. ”
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“ The most trifling matters may sometimes be not only the commencement, but the causes, of the gravest discussions. The fall of an apple from a tree suggested the doctrine of gravitation; and the same apple, for aught we know, served up in a dumpling, may have assisted the philosopher in his notions of heat ; for who has not witnessed similar causes and effects at a dinner table ? I confess, a piece of mutton has supplied me with arguments, as well as chops, for a week ; I have seen a hare or a cod’shead giving hints to a friend for his next Essay; and have known the most solemn reflections rise, with a pair of claws, out of a pigeonpie. ”
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“ Persons impatient of other’s deficiencies are in fact likely to be equally undiscerning of their merits; and are not aware, in either case, how much they are exposing the deficiencies on their own side. Not only, however, do they get into this dilemma, but what is more, they are lowering their respectability beneath that of the dullest person in the room. They shew themselves deficient, not merely in the qualities they miss in [a wise man who doesn’t make an ostentatious show of his knowledge] but in those which he really possesses, such as self knowledge and good temper. Were they as wise as they pretend to be, they would equal him in these points, and know how to extract something good from them in spite of his deficiency in the other; for intellectual qualities are not the only ones that excite the reflections, or conciliate the regard, of the truly intelligent, of those who can study human nature in all its bearings, and love it or sympathize with it, for all its affections. ”
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“ Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses. ”
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“ Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant. ”
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“ It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old. ”
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“ Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers. ”
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“ Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant. ”
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“ Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities, the meeting of extremes round a corner. ”
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“ The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man. ”
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“ Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace. ”
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“ Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind. ”
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“ If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating. ”
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“ If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating. ”
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“ If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating. ”
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“ It is a delicious moment, certainly, that of being well-nestled in bed and feeling that you shall drop gently to sleep. The good is to come, not past; the limbs are tired enough to render the remaining in one posture delightful; the labor of the day is gone. ”
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