If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONHe that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
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Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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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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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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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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Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
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Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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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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Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
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If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.
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An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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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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A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
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Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
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A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
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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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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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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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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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Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.
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In 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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It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
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