When you speak to any, especially of quality, look them full in the face; other gestures betraying want of breeding, confidence, or honesty; dejected eyes confessing, to most judgments, guilt or folly.
Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease. - Frances Osborne
Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease.
- Frances Osborne
I bear to the wisdom of Sir Philip Sidney, who said that next to hunting he liked hawking worst. However, though he may have fallen into as hyperboli… - Frances Osborne
I bear to the wisdom of Sir Philip Sidney, who said that next to hunting he liked hawking worst. However, though he may have fallen into as hyperboli…
A few books, well studied, and thoroughly digested, nourish the understanding more than hundreds but gargled in the mouth, as ordinary students use. - Frances Osborne
A few books, well studied, and thoroughly digested, nourish the understanding more than hundreds but gargled in the mouth, as ordinary students use.
The way to elegancy of style is to employ your pen upon every errand; and the more trivial and dry it is, the more brains must be allowed for sauce. - Frances Osborne
The way to elegancy of style is to employ your pen upon every errand; and the more trivial and dry it is, the more brains must be allowed for sauce.
Leave your bed upon the first desertion of sleep; it being ill for the eye's to read lying, and worse for the mind to be idle; since the head during … - Frances Osborne
Leave your bed upon the first desertion of sleep; it being ill for the eye's to read lying, and worse for the mind to be idle; since the head during …
What you leave at your death, let it be without controversy, else the lawyers will be your heirs. - Frances Osborne
What you leave at your death, let it be without controversy, else the lawyers will be your heirs.
It is an aphorism in physic, that unwholesome airs, because perpetually sucked into the lungs, do distemper health more than coarser diet used but at… - Frances Osborne
It is an aphorism in physic, that unwholesome airs, because perpetually sucked into the lungs, do distemper health more than coarser diet used but at…
He that seeks perfection upon earth leaves nothing new for the saints to find in heaven; for whilst men teach, there will be mistakes in divinity, an… - Frances Osborne
He that seeks perfection upon earth leaves nothing new for the saints to find in heaven; for whilst men teach, there will be mistakes in divinity, an…
Such as are betrayed by their easy nature to be ordinary security for their friends leave so little to themselves, as their liberty remains ever afte… - Frances Osborne
Such as are betrayed by their easy nature to be ordinary security for their friends leave so little to themselves, as their liberty remains ever afte…
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