Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThere are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
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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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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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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
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Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.
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The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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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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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
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Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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He 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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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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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
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That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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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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Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
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Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
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Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
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He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
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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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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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Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
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