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Born: 1970-01-01
Profession: Clergyman
Nation: English
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Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

Tags: Disgrace, Poverty

Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.

Tags: Forte, Science

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

Tags: Great, Solitude, Virtues

To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight.

Tags: Business, Love, Rise

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!

Tags: England, Pity, Religion

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

Tags: Arithmetic, Life, Scene

What you don't know would make a great book.

Tags: Book, Great

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Tags: Between, Cannot, Moving

To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.

Tags: Stand, Thinking, Worth

Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737.

Tags: After, Mind, Time

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

Tags: Dangerous, Great, Truth

It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.

Tags: Good, Ready, Virtue

The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.

Tags: Forgetting, Human, Keep

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

Tags: Fact, Ourselves, Within

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Tags: Cannot, Marriage, Moving

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

Tags: Courage, Great, Men

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Tags: Happiness, Life, Love

Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.

Tags: After, Beauty, Try

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.

Tags: Love, Manners, Respect

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

Tags: Among, Life, Praise

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

Tags: Keep, Nature, Whatever

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

Tags: Good, Happiness, Health

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can.

Tags: Greatest, Mistakes
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Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.

Tags: Friendship, Life, Looking

As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen.

Tags: Men, Three, Women

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

Tags: Give, Idea, Word

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.

Tags: Impossible, Keep, Small

Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.

Tags: After, Rather, Time

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

Tags: Great, Men, Time

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

Tags: Courage, Great, Ignorant

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Tags: Act, Heaven, Men

I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Tags: Alas, Illusion, Left

I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.

Tags: Inferior, Scotland

I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so.

Tags: Book, Prejudices, Read

Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done.

Tags: Done, Heads, Together

Live always in the best company when you read.

Tags: Best, Company, Read

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

Tags: Give, Habit, Melancholy

Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.

Tags: Giving, Others, Talk

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Tags: Begin, End, Superior

I respectfully suggest the propriety of having stationed at the arsenal a full company of U. S. troops, that they may be made available in any emergency, from fire, insurrection, or any thing else.

Tags: Else, Fire, May

In the event of fire in any of the public buildings troops would be of vast service in the protection of public property, and should insurrection break out the protection of life and property would be more safe guarded by our company of regulars, than by the whole City.

Tags: Fire, Life, Whole

It is notoriously true that the public mind is seriously agitated with apprehensions of negroes insurrections and that it is becoming more and more so.

Tags: Mind, Public, True
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