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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.
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If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
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The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
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Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
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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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He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.
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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
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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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What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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