The general lampooner of mankind may find long exercise for his zeal or wit, in the defects of nature, the vexations of life, the follies of opinion, and the corruptions of practice.
That man is surely the most wretched of the sons of wretchedness, who lives with his own faults and follies always before him, and who has none to reconcile him to himself by praise and veneration.
She is easy during the day, which she spends playing cards, but when evening comes the tempers and the follies begin; she torments her husband, her children, and her servants till they do not know how to bear it.
Such are the follies of many: but, thanks to Heaven!
He had been very extravagant with women, and more than one of them had committed many follies for him.
She called me back, made me take a seat near her, and told me not to commit follies which would make her unhappy; that I knew how much she loved me, and that it was not owing to the effect of any drug.
They are the follies inherent to youth; I make sport of them, and, if you are kind, you will not yourself refuse them a good-natured smile.
Where it is disregarded, anything follows that the tastes and follies of men may demand.
His frailties have been made for him, in more respects than one, by the faults and follies of society.
Unlucky wretch that I am, what an end my follies and fancies have come to!
But we blundered over it sadly at first; and among our mistakes, it was not the least that we christened our follies after Pestalozzi.
He is positive and abrupt, and is not in the habit of conciliating the feelings or soothing the follies of others.
Or was the impulse of the mind less likely to be true and sound when it arose from high thought and warm feeling, than afterwards, when it was warped and debased by the example, the vices, and follies of the world?
Its peculiar dogmas they may disapprove, but of innovation they see dreadful and unhealable consequence; and they will not quit the Church for a few follies and absurdities, any more than for the same reason they would desert a valued friend.
For the follies of which I may have been guilty, I have been greatly disgusted; and I trust the memory of them will operate to future consistency of conduct.
Follies cannot long endure, Life is short and death is sure.
As a human being, I have not been free from folliesand errors.
Steele was now at once a man of the town and its censor, and wrote lively essays on the follies of the day in an enormous black peruke which cost him fifty guineas!
One ought to recollect the past follies of humanity, to detect, perhaps, some existing ones.
He condescended to live on the follies of the people, and his sordid nature had changed him till he crept, "licking the dust with the serpent.
But Tregear, if he gave way to such follies as these, would soon fall headlong into a pit from which there would be no escape.
Thou transient teller of the truth, May he who bids, and thunders roll, Forgive the follies of my youth, And stamp thy lesson on My soul!
Therefore, his passions, far from seeming follies to him, seem divine inspirations, calls to sacrifice, fidelities to the ideal.
Their self-assertion and ambition are ancient follies of the human race; but they think these vulgar passions the creative spirit of the universe.
Even our vanities and follies are disinterested in their way; their egotism is not a calculated selfishness.
There is a sanguineness in men of great intellect which often leads them into follies avoided by the dull.
Nor did the Writers of the old Comedy always expose the greatest Crimes, but Crimes of a less Note, and Follies of the first Magnitude, and are in this Respect worthy of Imitation.
The Virtues, Vices, and Follies of Mankind, the Subject of Comedy; but more especially the Follies 283 Proved against Mons.
But however various the Matter of it is, it ought always to have somewhat of Keenness and Invective, to expose the Vices and Follies of Mankind with Raillery, or chastise them with Severity.
It is no easy Performance to rally theFollies of Mankind in an agreeable Manner; and to laugh with a good Grace, is no vulgar Attainment.
For Tragedy shou'd blush as much, to stoop To the low mimick Follies of a Farce, As a grave Matron wou'd, to dance with Girls.
In 1832, three years had thrown a mantle of snow over the follies and adventures of the Duchesse de Maufrigneuse, and had whitened them so thoroughly that it now required a serious effort of memory to recall them.
He might as well have added the trisection, to make the mystic number seven; but had he done so, he would still have been very lenient; only seven follies in all science, from mathematics to chemistry!
We had Kings who had no spark of English feeling in their breasts, but from whose follies and necessities our fathers were able to wring their freedom, all the more lastingly because it was bit by bit that it was wrung.
The follies and vices of the seventh were her salvation.
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