Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONGreat men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
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He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.
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Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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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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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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The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.
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Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.
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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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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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In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility.
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The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
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Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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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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Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.
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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
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The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
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