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Age is suspicious but is not i...

Age is suspicious but is not itself often suspected.

Johann Von Zimmermann 74 quotes

Laugh as loud as you please at...

Laugh as loud as you please at your companion's wit; do not even smile at his folly.

Johann Von Zimmermann 74 quotes

Take care to be an economist i...

Take care to be an economist in prosperity. There is no fear of your being one in adversity.

Johann Von Zimmermann 74 quotes

Be not so bigoted to any custo...

Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.

Johann Von Zimmermann 74 quotes

When ill news comes too late t...

When ill news comes too late to be serviceable to your neighbor, keep it to yourself.

Johann Von Zimmermann 74 quotes

Never lose sight of this impor...

Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.

Johann Von Zimmermann 74 quotes

There are few mortals so insen...

There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect

Johann Von Zimmermann 74 quotes

The ill usage of every minute ...

The ill usage of every minute is a new record against us in heaven.

Johann Von Zimmermann 74 quotes

Idlers cannot even find time t...

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

Johann Von Zimmermann 74 quotes

Silence is the safest response...

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

Johann Von Zimmermann 74 quotes

Silence is a trick when it imp...

Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.

Johann Von Zimmermann 74 quotes

The necessities that exist are...

The necessities that exist are in general created by the superfluities that are enjoyed.

Johann Von Zimmermann 74 quotes

By fools, knaves fatten; by bi...

By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.

Johann Von Zimmermann 74 quotes

Gambling houses are temples wh...

Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a small square of ivory interests more than the loss of an empire, or the ruin of an unoffending group of infants, and their nearest relatives.

Johann Von Zimmermann 74 quotes

Never suffer the prejudice of ...

Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.

Johann Von Zimmermann 74 quotes

Never suffer the prejudice of ...

Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart. -Johann Georg Zimmermann.

Johann Von Zimmermann 74 quotes

When we meet with better fare ...

When we meet with better fare than was expected, the disappointment is overlooked even by the unscrupulous. When we meet with worse than was expected, philosophers alone know how to make it better.

Johann Von Zimmermann 74 quotes

When soured by disappointment ...

When soured by disappointment we must endeavor to pursue some fixed and pleasing course of study, that there may be no blank leaf in our book of life. Painful and disagreeable ideas vanish from the mind that can fix its attention upon any subject.

Johann Von Zimmermann 74 quotes

Profound meditation in solitud...

Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and sublime conceptions. The soul then tastes the purest and most refined delight, and almost loses the idea of existence in the intellectual pleasure it receives. The mind on every motion darts through space into eternity; and raised, in its free enjoyment of its powers by its own enthusiasm, strengthens itself in the habitude of contemplating the noblest subjects, and of adop

Johann Von Zimmermann 74 quotes

Leisure, the highest happiness...

Leisure, the highest happiness upon earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. Indolence and indifference do not always afford leisure; for true leisure is frequently found in that interval of relaxation which divides a painful duty from an agreeable recreation; a toilsome business from the more agreeable occupations of literature and philosophy.

Johann Von Zimmermann 74 quotes

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