Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThere is this difference between happiness and wisdom; he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
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Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
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Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
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That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
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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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Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse–a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.
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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
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Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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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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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
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A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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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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A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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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 nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.
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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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