The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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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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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
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Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
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Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
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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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Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
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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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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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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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Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
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Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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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.
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Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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