I Samuel Quotes
But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.
Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.
It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? There is nothing saddening here. Perhaps it is liquefied brain.
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.
No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line.
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
The drama's laws the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please must please to live.
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.
As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.
One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.