The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.

Quote by Francois Fenelon

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All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more...

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more...

Little opportunities should be improved.

Little opportunities should be improved.

If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of...

If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of...

When you find that weariness depresses or amusement distracts you, you will calmly turn with...

When you find that weariness depresses or amusement distracts you, you will calmly turn with...

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who...

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who...

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded,...

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded,...

The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still...

The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still...

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of...

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of...

A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his...

A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his...

The best use one can make of his mind is to distrust it

The best use one can make of his mind is to distrust it

Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts,...

Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts,...

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is...

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is...

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe,...

If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe,...

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack...

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack...