A lazy hand is no argument
of a contented heart.
(Thomas Fuller (I): The Holy State & the Profane.)
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A lazy hand is no argument
of a contented heart.
(Thomas Fuller (I): The Holy State & the Profane.)
The lazy are always wanting to do something.
(Vauvenargues: Reflections and Maxims.)
Good swimmers are oftenest drowned.
(Thomas Fuller (II): Gnomologia.)
There is no such thing as a great talent
without great will-power.
(Balzac: La Muse du Departement.)
Never claim as a right
what you can ask as a favour.
(Churton Collins: English Review.)
Never tell your resolution beforehand.
(John Selden: Table Talk.)
The nearest way to honour
is to have none at all.
(Samuel Butler (I): Prose Observations.)
Fools invent fashions,
and wise men are fain to follow them.
(Samuel Butler (l): Prose Observations.)
The more one pleases generally,
the less one pleases profoundly.
(Stendhal: Love.)
Fame is so sweet that we love anything
with which we connect it, even death.
(Pascal: Pensées.)