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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONCheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
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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 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 true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
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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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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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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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Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
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Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.
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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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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.
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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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What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.
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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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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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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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