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Roger L Estrange Inspirational Quotes (34)

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Tis not necessity, but opinion, that makes men miserable and when we come to be fancy-sick, there's no cure.
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Ingratitude is abhorred by God and man.
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A plodding diligence brings us sooner to our journey's end than a fluttering way of advancing by starts.
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Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils.
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There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may gain his point.
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So long as we stand in need of a benefit, there is nothing dearer to us nor anything cheaper when we have received it.
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Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice.
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He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the ink-pot.
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Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe, and make themselves the common enemies of mankind.
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Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences of an honest poverty.
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A body may well lay too little as too much stress upon a dream but the less he heed them the better.
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Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.
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What man in his right senses, that has wherewithal to live free, would make himself a slave for superfluities? What does that man want who has enough? Or what is he the better for abundance that can never be satisfied.
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It is a way of calling a man a fool when no attention is given to what he says.
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There is no contending with necessity, and we should be very tender how we censure those that submit to it. It is one thing to be at liberty to do what we will, and another thing to be tied up to do what we must.
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We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end.
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It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone what it compares its situation to that can make anyone happy or miserable. Compare it to something better - result envy, frustration and sadness. Compare it to something worse - relief, gratitude and happiness.
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Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.
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To be longing for this thing to-day and for that thing to-morrow to change likings for loathings, and to stand wishing and hankering at a venture--how is it possible for any man to be at rest in this fluctuant, wandering humor and opinion?
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Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamation of them.
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Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.
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He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy.
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Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions.
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Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.
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