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Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.
Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
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Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Age: 66 †
Born: 1728
Born: December 8
Died: 1795
Died: October 7
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Brugg AG
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Johann Georg Zimmermann
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There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man's desires, he cannot live long enough measure by his good deeds, and he has not lived long enough measure by his evil deeds, and he has lived too long.
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Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering
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Novels do not force their fair readers to sin, they only instruct them how to sin the consequences of which are fully detailed, and not in a way calculated to seduce any but weak but weak minds few of their heroines are happily disposed of.
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Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.
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The necessities that exist are in general created by the superfluities that are enjoyed.
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Liberal of cruelty are those who pamper with promises promisers destroy while they deceive, and the hope they raise is dearly purchased by the dependence that is sequent to disappointment.
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Troops of furies march in the drunkard's triumph.
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Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.
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The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.
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Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties the sluggard is a living insensible.
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Many species of wit are quite mechanical these are the favorites of witlings, whose fame in words scarce outlives the remembrance of their funeral ceremonies.
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The ill usage of every minute is a new record against us in heaven.
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All our distinctions ire accidental beauty and deformity, though personal qualities, are neither entitled to praise nor censure yet it so happens that they color our opinion of those qualities to which mankind have attached responsibility.
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Those beings only are fit for solitude who are like nobody, and are liked by nobody.
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Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find nothing. They have an empty head and seared hearts.
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It would be a considerable consolation to the poor and discontented could they but see the means whereby the wealth they covet has been acquired, or the misery that it entails.
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'We only have two things to worry about...... One that things will never get back to normal And two that they already have!' Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.
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Thought and action are the redeeming features of our lives.
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Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins.
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Unless the habit leads to happiness the best habit is to contract none.
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