He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONNone 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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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
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It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
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What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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Constant 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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The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
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To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.
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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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Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
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Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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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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A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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