The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONFame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave
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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
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It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
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Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
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An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
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Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
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Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.
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Life isn’t like a book. Life isn’t logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
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Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
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Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
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He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.
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