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Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

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    Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

    Age is suspicious but is not itself often suspected.

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    A good name will wear out; a bad one may be turned; a nickname lasts forever.

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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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    Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

    A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

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    An everlasting tranquility is, in my imagination, the highest possible felicity, because I know of no felicity on earth higher than that which a peaceful mind and contented heart afford.

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    Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.

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    Books afford the surest relief in the most melancholy moments.

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    By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.

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    Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

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    Contempt is frequently regulated by fashion.

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    Do not think that your Learning and Genius, your Wit or Sprightliness, are welcome everywhere. I was once told that my Company was disagreeable because I appeared so uncommonly happy.

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    Economy is an excellent lure to betray people into expense.

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    Egotism is more like an offense, than a crime; though it is allowable to speak of yourself, provided nothing is advanced in favor; but I cannot help suspecting that those who abuse themselves are, in reality, angling for approbation.

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    Family pride entertains many unsocial opinions.

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    Fools with bookish knowledge art children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves, and put others in pain.

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    Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a small square of ivory interests more than the loss of an empire, or the ruin of an unoffending group of infants, and their nearest relatives.

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    Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

    Hunger is the mother of impatience and anger.

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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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    In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.

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    In the sallies of badinage a polite fool shines; but in gravity he is as awkward as an elephant disporting.

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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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    Laugh as loud as you please at your companion's wit; do not even smile at his folly.

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    Leisure, the highest happiness upon earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. Indolence and indifference do not always afford leisure; for true leisure is frequently found in that interval of relaxation which divides a painful duty from an agreeable recreation; a toilsome business from the more agreeable occupations of literature and philosophy.

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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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    Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.

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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.

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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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    Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.

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    Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.

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    News-hunters have great leisure, with little thought; much petty ambition to be considered intelligent, without any other pretension than being able to communicate what they have just learned.

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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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    One ought to love society, if he wishes to enjoy solitude. It is a social nature that solitude works upon with the most various power. If one is misanthropic, and betakes himself to loneliness that he may get away from hateful things, solitude is a silent emptiness to him.

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    Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and sublime conceptions. The soul then tastes the purest and most refined delight, and almost loses the idea of existence in the intellectual pleasure it receives. The mind on every motion darts through space into eternity; and raised, in its free enjoyment of its powers by its own enthusiasm, strengthens itself in the habitude of contemplating the noblest subjects, and of adopting the most heroic pursuits.

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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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    Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

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    Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility. Granted. Even then the retaliation is at their own expense.

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    Surmise is the gossamer that malice blows on fair reputations, the corroding dew that destroys the choice blossom. Surmise is primarily the squint of suspicion, and suspicion is established before it is confirmed.

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    Take care to be an economist in prosperity. There is no fear of your being one in adversity.

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    The human mind, in proportion as it is deprived of external resources, sedulously labors to find within itself the means of happiness, learns to rely with confidence on its own exertions, and gains with greater certainty the power of being happy.

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    The ill usage of every minute is a new record against us in heaven.

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    The love of solitude, when cultivated in the morn of life, elevates the mind to a noble independence, but to acquire the advantages which solitude is capable of affording, the mind must not be impelled to it by melancholy and discontent, but by a real distaste to the idle pleasures of the world, a rational contempt for the deceitful joys of life, and just apprehensions of being corrupted and seduced by its insinuating and destructive gayeties.

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    The lust of dominion innovates so imperceptibly that we become complete despots before our wanton abuse of power is perceived; the tyranny first exercised in the nursery is exhibited in various shapes and degrees in every stage of our existence.

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    The man whose bosom neither riches nor luxury nor grandeur can render happy may, with a book in his hand, forget all his torments under the friendly shade of every tree; and experience pleasures as infinite as they are varied, as pure as they are lasting, as lively as they are unfading, and as compatible with every public duty as they are contributory to private happiness.

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    The purse of the patient often protracts his case.

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    The quarter of an hour before dinner is the worst that suitors can choose.

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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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    There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect

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    The rich and luxurious may claim an exclusive right to those pleasures which are capable of being purchased by pelf, in which the mind has no enjoyment, and which only afford a temporary relief to languor by steeping the senses in forgetfulness; but in the precious pleasures of the intellect, so easily accessible by all mankind, the great have no exclusive privilege; for such enjoyments are only to be procured by our own industry.

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    The weak may be joked out of anything but their weakness.

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    Those beings only are fit for solitude who are like nobody, and are liked by nobody.