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“You must work for yourself; for what you reject may be as important for you to have seen and thought about, as what you adopt.”

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‘On the Transaction of Business’, p. 85.
Essays written in the Intervals of Business, (1841)

“Self-indulgence takes many forms; and we should bear in mind that there may be a sullen sensuality as well as a gay one.”

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Companions of my Solitude. (1901) p.66.

“Soothe the present as much as we may; look forward as hopefully as we can to the future, still the dreadful past must overshadow us.”

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Source: Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms. (1871), p. 116

“Even the most careless people have a sort of aversion to signing things which they have never considered.”

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‘Of Councils, Commissions, and, in general, of ... ’ p.116.
Essays written in the Intervals of Business, (1841)

“Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion.”

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Source: Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms. (1871), p. 141.

“Any one who is much talked of, must be much maligned. This seems to be a harsh conclusion; but when you consider how much more given men are to depreciate than to appreciate, you will acknowledge that there is some truth in the saying.”

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Source: Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms. (1871), p. 6

“There is nothing so easily made offensive as good reasoning; and men of clear logical minds, if not gifted at the same time with tact, make more enemies than men with bad hearts and unsound understandings.”

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Source: Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms. (1871), p. 114

“The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice. The rich are always advising the poor; but the poor seldom return the compliment.”

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Source: Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms. (1871), p. 181

“Friendship is often outgrown; and his former child’s clothes will no more fit a man than some of his former friendships.”

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‘Unreasonable Claims in Social Affections and Relations’, Chapter IX.
Friends in Council (First Series), (1847),

“No man ever praised two persons equally – and pleased them both.”

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Source: Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd. 1901, p.25.

“Do not mistake energy for enthusiasm; the softest speakers are often the most enthusiastic of men.”

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Source: Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd. 1901, p.17.

“The more truth you can get into any business, the better. Let the other side know the defects of yours, let them know how you are to be satisfied, let there be as little to be found as possible (I should say nothing), and if your business be an honest one, it will be best tended in this way.”

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‘Truth’, Chapter I.
Friends in Council (First Series), (1847),

“The envious man desires some good which another possesses; the jealous man would often be content to be without the good so that that other did not possess it.”

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Source: Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms. (1871), p.31.

“The knowledge of others which experience gives us, is of slight value when compared with that which we obtain from having proved the inconstancy of our own desires.”

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Source: Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd. 1901, p.26.

“Our knowledge of human nature is for the most part empirical; and it would often be better, if, instead of endeavouring to say some new things ourselves, we were to confirm without more words the sayings of another.”

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Source: Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd. 1901, p.19.

“A very useful book might be written with the sole object of advising what parts of what books should be read. It should not be a book of elegant extracts, but should merely refer to the passages which are advised to be read. It might also indicate what are the chief works upon any given subject. For example, take rent; the important passages in Adam Smith, Ricardo, Jones, Mill, and other writers, should be referred to.”

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Source: Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms. (1871), p. 37

“How often we should stop in the pursuit of folly, if it were not for the difficulties that continually beckon us onwards.”

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Source: Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd. 1901, p.24.

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