Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.
—Tobias Smollett
Topics: Risk, Courage, Risk-taking, Boldness
A man’s opinion of danger varies at different times according to his animal spirits, and he is actuated by considerations which he dares not avow.
—Tobias Smollett
Topics: Danger
Glory is the child of peril.
—Tobias Smollett
Topics: Glory
Nature I’ll court in her sequestered haunts, by mountain, meadow, streamlet, grove, or cell; where the poised lark his evening ditty chaunts, and health, and peace, and contemplation dwell.
—Tobias Smollett
Topics: Retirement
The blast that blows loudest is soonest overblown.
—Tobias Smollett
Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.
—Tobias Smollett
Topics: Wisdom
Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
—Tobias Smollett
Topics: Wisdom, Ignorance
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