Today Quotes
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A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.Johann Kaspar Lavater
From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.Joseph Addison
No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.C. C. Colton
Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his face can smile while the other is pinched.Thomas Fuller
We are a kind of Chameleons, taking our hue - the hue of our moral character, from those who are about us.John Locke
It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one from another; therefore, let all take heed as to the society in which they mingle, for in a little while they will be like it.Rule of Life
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.Joseph Addison
Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.Robert Cecil
The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.Johnson
One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict - girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe.Percival