Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONHe 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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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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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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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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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
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A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
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As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.
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He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.
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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
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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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Some 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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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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Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
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As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.
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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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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
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Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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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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Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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