Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThat is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.
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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
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The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author’s that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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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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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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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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There 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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There are male as well as female gossips.
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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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There 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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Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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