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13 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.— filed under Action
Affectation is an awkward and forced Imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the Beauty that accompanies what is natural. S.— filed under Affectation
There seems to be a constant decay of all our ideas; even of those which are struck deepest, and in minds the most retentive, so that if they be not sometimes renewed by repeated exercises of the senses, or reflection on those kinds of objects which at first occasioned them, the print wears out, and at last there remains nothing to be seen.— filed under Deceit
It is in vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.— filed under Deceit
Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.— filed under Eternity
A sound Mind in a sound Body, is a short but full description of a happy State in this World.— filed under Happiness
Chinese Repository by Dr. Wm. Milne. A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.— filed under Ignorance
Convention. 1775. He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss. C.— filed under Judgment
Johnson. 1775. The improvement of the understanding is for two ends: first, for our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out that knowledge to others.— filed under Knowledge
To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.— filed under Reason
The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have, and therefore should be secured, because they seldom return again.— filed under Thought
Breakfast Table. V. The best way to come to truth being to examine things as really they are, and not to conclude they are, as we fancy of ourselves, or have been taught by others to imagine.— filed under Truth
To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.— filed under Truth