We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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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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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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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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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The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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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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It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
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The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.
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Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.
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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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