That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThere are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.
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In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
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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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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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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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The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
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If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
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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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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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That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.
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Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
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A man’s profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.
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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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Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
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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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