There is this difference between happiness and wisdom; he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
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 present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
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There are male as well as female gossips.
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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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God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.
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Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
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The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.
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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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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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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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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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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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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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For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
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Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
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To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.
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Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.
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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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Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that begins by deceiving others, will end by deceiving himself.
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