Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
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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Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
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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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The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
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Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
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Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.
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I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.
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The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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