Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
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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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A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.
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The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.
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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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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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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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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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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
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Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
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Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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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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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
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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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Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
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The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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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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