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.
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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He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
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Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
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Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
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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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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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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!
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Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.
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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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