Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONNothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.
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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.
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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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The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
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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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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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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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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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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
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That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.
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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
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Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.
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The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
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Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
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