The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIf you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
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In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
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The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
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Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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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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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
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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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It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.
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The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
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A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.
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The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author’s that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
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He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over.
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