It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONSome persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over.
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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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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.
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An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.
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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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Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
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There are male as well as female gossips.
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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.
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We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
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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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The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
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It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.
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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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