He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONHe that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
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A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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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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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
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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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The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
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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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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter 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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Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
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There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
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Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.
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It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
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A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us – never cease to instruct – never cloy.
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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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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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The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
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It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.
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He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.
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