An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
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Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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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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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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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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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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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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It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.
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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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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.
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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.
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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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Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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There is this difference between happiness and wisdom; he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
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Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.
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Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.
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A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
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