True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIn 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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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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The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
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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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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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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.
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Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.
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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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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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It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.
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