Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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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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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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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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He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
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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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As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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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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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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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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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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