Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONSturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
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As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
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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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Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.
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Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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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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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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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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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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War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.
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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.
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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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Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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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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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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Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.
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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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Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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