Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
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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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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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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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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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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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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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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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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What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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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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Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.
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