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Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.

Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.

Roger L'Estrange
Stars, Astrology, Kingdoms

There is not one grain in the universe, either too much or too little, nothing to be added, nothing to be spared; nor so much as any one particle of it, that mankind may not be either the better or the worse for, according as it is applied.

Roger L'Estrange
May, Littles, Too Much

It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit.

Roger L'Estrange
Men, Mortification, Bores

A body may well lay too little as too much stress upon a dream; but the less he heed them the better.

Roger L'Estrange
Dream, Stress, Body
Aesop, Roger L'Estrange, Alexander Calder (1967). “Fables of Aesop”, p.56, Courier Corporation

To be longing for this thing to-day and for that thing to-morrow; to change likings for loathings, and to stand wishing and hankering at a venture--how is it possible for any man to be at rest in this fluctuant, wandering humor and opinion?

Roger L'Estrange
Men, Wish, Venture

Some natures are so sour and ungrateful that they are never to be obliged.

Roger L'Estrange
Ungrateful, Sour, Obliged

Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils.

Roger L'Estrange
Teaching, Pupils, Should

So long as we stand in need of a benefit, there is nothing dearer to us; nor anything cheaper when we have received it.

Roger L'Estrange
Gratitude, Long, Needs
Sir Roger L'Estrange (1800). “Seneca's Morals, by Way of Abstract: To which is Added, a Discourse Under the Title of An After Thought : Adorned with Plates”, p.76

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