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Many of our miseries are merel...

Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of some fictitious good; of something which is not required by any real want of nature, which has not in itself any power of gratification, and which neither reason nor fancy would have prompted us to wish, did we not see it in the possession of others.

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Plenty is the original cause o...

Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized nations, proceeds often from that change of manners which opulence has produced. Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries; but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

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That the happiness of man may ...

That the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily created; every man, in surveying the shops of London, sees numberless instruments and conveniencies, of which, while he did not know them, he never felt the need; and yet, when use has made them familiar, wonders how life could be supported without them. Thus it comes to pass, that our desires always increase with our possessions; the knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed, impairs our

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To mean understandings, it is ...

To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning; but different abilities must find different tasks. To hew stone, would have been unworthy of Palladio; and to have rambled in search of shells and flowers, had but ill suited with the capacity of Newton.

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It may be observed in general ...

It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification.

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Our minds, like our bodies, ar...

Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.... Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want of motion: commit yourself again to the current of the world.

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If the abuse be enormous, natu...

If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.

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When female minds are embitter...

When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic trifles.

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He that would be superior to e...

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

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That friendship may be at once...

That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both.

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As any action or posture, long...

As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.

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The most Heterogeneous ideas a...

The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.

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There lurks, perhaps, in every...

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.

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It is very strange, and very m...

It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.

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I would rather be attacked tha...

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

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Our desires always increase wi...

Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

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You are much surer that you ar...

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.

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The vicious count their years;...

The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.

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God Himself, sir, does not pro...

God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?

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When once the forms of civilit...

When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.

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