Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONMake no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
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It 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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Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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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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The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
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He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
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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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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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The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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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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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
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Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.
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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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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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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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