Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONBooks, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us – never cease to instruct – never cloy.
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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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A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.
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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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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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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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Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
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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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Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
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Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
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Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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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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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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