Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONAs that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.
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The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
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He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.
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Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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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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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.
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It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
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The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society’s most basic values.
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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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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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