Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONConstant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
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That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society’s most basic values.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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Cheerfulness 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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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
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It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
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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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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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For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
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