The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONWhat would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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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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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
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Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
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Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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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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Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
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He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.
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Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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Life isn’t like a book. Life isn’t logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
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Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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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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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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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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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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To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
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For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
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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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The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
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A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
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He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.
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The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author’s that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
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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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