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  • When you descant on the faults of others, consider whether you be not guilty of the same. To gain knowledge of ourselves, the best way is to convert the imperfections of others into a mirror for discovering our own.

    Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1775). “Introduction to the art of thinking. Third edition. Enlarged with additional maxims and illustrations. [By Henry Home, Lord Kames.]”, p.64
  • Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous, than virtuous love.

    Love   Noble   Virtuous  
    Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1775). “Introduction to the art of thinking. Third edition. Enlarged with additional maxims and illustrations. [By Henry Home, Lord Kames.]”, p.22
  • We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment.

    Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1775). “Introduction to the art of thinking. Third edition. Enlarged with additional maxims and illustrations. [By Henry Home, Lord Kames.]”, p.45
  • Even dress is apt to inflame a man's opinion of himself.

    Men   Dresses   Opinion  
    Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.51
  • Whoever appears to have much cunning has in reality very little; being deficient in the essential article, which is, to hide cunning.

    Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1775). “Introduction to the art of thinking. Third edition. Enlarged with additional maxims and illustrations. [By Henry Home, Lord Kames.]”, p.13
  • Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.

    Men   Way   Glory  
    Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1775). “Introduction to the art of thinking. Third edition. Enlarged with additional maxims and illustrations. [By Henry Home, Lord Kames.]”, p.53
  • Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.

    Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.62
  • False praise is always confined to the great.

    Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1775). “Introduction to the art of thinking. Third edition. Enlarged with additional maxims and illustrations. [By Henry Home, Lord Kames.]”, p.31
  • Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant.

    Pain   Pleasure   Fortune  
    Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.32
  • A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty.

    Exercise   Men   Mind  
    Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.58
  • The mind is never more highly gratified than in contemplating a natural landscape.

    Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1817). “Elements of criticism [by H. Home].”, p.299
  • Nothing so uncertain as general reputation. A man injures me from humor, passion, or interest; hates me because he has injured me; and speaks ill of me because he hates me.

    Hate   Passion   Men  
    Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.50
  • Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion.

    Men   May   Golden  
    Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.96
  • Emotions are raised in us, not only by the qualities and actions of others, but also by their feelings. I cannot behold a man in distress, without partaking of his pain; nor in joy, without partaking of his pleasure.

    Pain   Men   Joy  
  • Beauty is a dangerous property, tending to corrupt the mind of the wife, though it soon loses its influence over the husband. A figure agreeable and engaging, which inspires affection, without the ebriety of love, is a much safer choice.

  • Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way.

    Art   Thinking   Mind  
  • Who hath not courage to revenge will never find generosity to forgive.

    Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1789). “Introduction to the Art of Thinking. Fourth edition, enlarged, etc”, p.10
  • As nice as we are in love, we forgive more faults in that than in friendship.

    Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1775). “Introduction to the art of thinking. Third edition. Enlarged with additional maxims and illustrations. [By Henry Home, Lord Kames.]”, p.25
  • Death, whether it regards ourselves or others, appears less terrible in war than at home. The cries of women and children, friends in anguish, a dark room, dim tapers, priests and physicians, are what affect us the most on the death-bed. Behold us already more than half dead and buried.

    Death   Children   War  
    Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1789). “Introduction to the Art of Thinking. Fourth edition, enlarged, etc”, p.46
  • Great wants proceed from great wealth; but they are undutiful children, for they sink wealth down to poverty.

    Children   Want   Poverty  
    Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.71
  • To a zealot every one of his own sect is a saint, while the most upright of a different sect are to him children of perdition.

    Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1817). “Elements of criticism [by H. Home].”, p.139
  • Genius is allied to a warm and inflammable constitution; delicacy of taste, to calmness and sedateness. Hence it is common to find genius in one who is a prey to every passion.

    Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1817). “Elements of criticism [by H. Home].”, p.11
  • The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel.

    Revenge   Men   Savages  
  • A relation is formed betwixt every man and the fruits of his own labour, the very thing we call property, which he himself is sensible of, and of which every other is equally sensible. Yours and mine are terms in all languages, familiar among savages, and understood even by children. This is a fact, which every human creature can testify.

    Children   Men   Savages  
  • Beauty loses its relish; the graces never.

    Grace   Relish   Loses  
    Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1775). “Introduction to the art of thinking. Third edition. Enlarged with additional maxims and illustrations. [By Henry Home, Lord Kames.]”, p.79
  • A great mind will neither give an affront nor bear it.

    Giving   Mind   Bears  
    Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1789). “Introduction to the Art of Thinking. Fourth edition, enlarged, etc”, p.10
  • Luxury possibly may contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.

    "Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author".
  • Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.

  • The sordid meal of the Cynics contributed neither to their tranquillity nor to their modesty. Pride went with Diogenes into his tub; and there he had the presumption to command Alexander the haughtiest of all men.

    Pride   Men   Meals  
    Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.80
  • Every man, however little, makes a figure in his own eyes.

    Eye   Men   Littles  
    Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1789). “Introduction to the Art of Thinking. Fourth edition, enlarged, etc”, p.27
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