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There 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.

Charles Caleb Colton

The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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Mindset Science
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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Act Decision Deliberate Firm Grace
It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.
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Accomplishment Easy Hide Hypocrisy Learning Pretend
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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Build Food Home Honor Monument Ourselves Pull Reward
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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Creature Excellence Feeling Language Learning School
There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
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Care Command Influence Reading
If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.
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Attack Defense Enemy Friendship Goodness Violence
He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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Adversity Himself Prosperity
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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Avoid Better Dangerous Hurricane Shipwreck Storm Wait
Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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Common Privacy Stock Theory
Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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Insult Mindset Vulgar
God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.
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God Goodness Prayer Prevent Work
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us – never cease to instruct – never cloy.
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Book Friendship Instruction Return True
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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Blood Ourselves Remedy Revenge
The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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Fools Himself Known Man Mistake World
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.
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Difference Effect Life Philosophy Religion

There 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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