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Topic |
| Absurdity | An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. |
| Admiration | Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view. |
| Admiration | Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. |
| Apparitions | Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unavenged amongst us! |
| Argument | Much might be said on both sides. |
| Authorship | The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves. |
| Beauty | Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. |
| Bigotry | A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side. |
| Books | Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation, as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. |
| Books and Reading | Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. |
| Business | There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch. |
| Censure | It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. |
| Censure | It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of ;antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. |
| Charity | Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands. |
| Cheerfulness | A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful and wit good-natured. |
| Conscience | Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods, Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time, Filled up with horror all, and big with death! |
| Conversation | Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood. |
| Country | There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country. |
| Courage | I think the Romans call it Stoicism. |
| Courage | The soul, secured in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point. |
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