Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIt is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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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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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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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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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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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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Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.
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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
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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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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.
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Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
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There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.
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We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.
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Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.
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Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
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