Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIt 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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Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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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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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
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A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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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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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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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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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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If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
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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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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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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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