The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIt may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.
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There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!
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In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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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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Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.
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The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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There are male as well as female gossips.
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I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.
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Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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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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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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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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A man’s profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.
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