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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONTo 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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It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.
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Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.
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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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Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.
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He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
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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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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.
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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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