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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONHe that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.
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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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If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.
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Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over.
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For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
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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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Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.
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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.
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True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
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He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
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