Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONTrue friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
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Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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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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The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
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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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Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
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It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.
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Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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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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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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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.
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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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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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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.
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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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