Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONWe may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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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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Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.
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The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.
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The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.
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There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.
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It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that begins by deceiving others, will end by deceiving himself.
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Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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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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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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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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Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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There are male as well as female gossips.
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The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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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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Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse–a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.
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Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
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Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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