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Autobiography and memoir

Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Confessions (Rousseau) · 1781

★ 5.5

Autobiography and memoir

Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Confessions (Rousseau) · 1781

★ 5.5

Historical literature

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · 1781

★ 3.8

He that runs against Time has an antagonist not subject to casualties.

1781

★ 3.7

The great source of pleasure is variety. Uniformity must tire at last, though it be uniformity of excellence. We love to expect; and when expectation is disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

1781

★ 3.5

Historical literature

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · 1781

★ 2.1

Historical literature

There is nothing perhaps more adverse to nature and reason than to hold in obedience remote countries and foreign nations in opposition to their inclination and interest.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · 1781

★ 1.9

To be of no Church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by eternal ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.

Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets · 1781

★ 1.9

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

Alexander Hamilton

1781

★ 1.2