Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.
From William Shenstone
The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased.
There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.
Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.
Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.
Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.
Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.
A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind.
The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.
Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.
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