God help us! it is a foolish little thing, this human life, at the best; and it is half ridiculous and half pitiful to see what importance we ascribe to it, and to its little ornaments and distinctions.
The cheat ambition, eager to espouse dominion, courts it with a lying show, and shines in borrowed pomp to serve a turn. - Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
The cheat ambition, eager to espouse dominion, courts it with a lying show, and shines in borrowed pomp to serve a turn.
- Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary. - Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.
The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their common enemy, Na… - Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their common enemy, Na…
There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices. - Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.
He will always see the most beauty whose affections are the warmest and most exercised, whose imagination is the most powerful, and who has most accu… - Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
He will always see the most beauty whose affections are the warmest and most exercised, whose imagination is the most powerful, and who has most accu…
God help us! it is a foolish little thing, this human life, at the best; and it is half ridiculous and half pitiful to see what importance we ascribe… - Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
God help us! it is a foolish little thing, this human life, at the best; and it is half ridiculous and half pitiful to see what importance we ascribe…
Nothing is so firmly than that which is least known. - Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
Nothing is so firmly than that which is least known.
An obligation is something which constrains or induces us to act. - Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
An obligation is something which constrains or induces us to act.
Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility. - Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility.
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