Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONLife 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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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
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Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
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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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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.
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He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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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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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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He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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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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Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave
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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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Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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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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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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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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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.
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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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