Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe 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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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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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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He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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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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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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The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
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Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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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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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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