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• 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.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Arte, Pensamiento, Mente

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• 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

  Imagination, Expectations, Pleasure

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

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• Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  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

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• Cuando discurres sobre las faltas de otros, considera si tú no eres culpable de lo mismo. Para conocernos a nosotros mismos, lo mejor es convertir las imperfecciones de los demás en un espejo para descubrir las nuestras.

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  Mirrors, Imperfection, Way

  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

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• Beauty loses its relish; the graces never.

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  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

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• No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Men, Conflict, Injury

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• La mente nunca se siente más gratificada que al contemplar un paisaje natural.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Mind, Landscape, Natural

  Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1817). “Elements of criticism [by H. Home].”, p.299

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• The coward reckons himself cautious, the miser frugal.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Coward, Frugal, Cautious

  Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.47

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• Ridicule, which chiefly arises from pride, a selfish passion, is but at best a gross pleasure, too rough an entertainment for those who are highly polished and refined.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Selfish, Passion, Pride

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• La belleza es una propiedad peligrosa, que tiende a corromper la mente de la esposa, aunque pronto pierde su influencia sobre el marido. Una figura agradable y atractiva, que inspire afecto, sin la ebriedad del amor, es una elección mucho más segura.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Beauty, Husband, Love Is

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• 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.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  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

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• Las emociones se suscitan en nosotros, no sólo por las cualidades y acciones de los demás, sino también por sus sentimientos. No puedo contemplar a un hombre afligido, sin participar de su dolor; ni alegre, sin participar de su placer.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Dolor, Hombres, Alegría

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• The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Love, Wise, Generosity

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• An agreeable figure and winning manner, which inspire affection without love, are always new. Beauty loses its relish, the graces never, after the longest acquaintance, they are no less agreeable than at first.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Beauty, Winning, Grace

  Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.91

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

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Courage, Revenge, Generosity

  Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1789). “Introduction to the Art of Thinking. Fourth edition, enlarged, etc”, p.10

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• An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands. Passion swells by gratification; and the impossibility of satisfying every one of his demands will oblige you to stop short at last, after he has become a little headstrong.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Children, Passion, Childhood

  Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.55

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• Luxury possibly may contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Luxury, Giving, Would Be

  "Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author".

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• 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

  Children, Different, Saint

  Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1817). “Elements of criticism [by H. Home].”, p.139

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• A great mind will neither give an affront nor bear it.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Giving, Mind, Bears

  Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1789). “Introduction to the Art of Thinking. Fourth edition, enlarged, etc”, p.10

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• Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Sabiduría, Hombres, Dar

  Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1789). “Introduction to the Art of Thinking. Fourth edition, enlarged, etc”, p.28

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• An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Children, Demand, Way

  Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.55

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• Un hombre rico no puede disfrutar de una mente sana ni de un cuerpo sano sin ejercicio y abstinencia; y, sin embargo, éstos son verdaderamente los peores ingredientes de la pobreza.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Ejercicio, Hombres, Mente

  Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.58

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• 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

  Expectations, Wish, Anticipation

  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

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• Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous, than virtuous love.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  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

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• Incluso la forma de vestir puede inflamar la opinión que un hombre tiene de sí mismo.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Hombres, Vestidos, Opinión

  Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.51

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