Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONHonor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
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Life isn’t like a book. Life isn’t logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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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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A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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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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There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.
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Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.
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Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.
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Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
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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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I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.
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Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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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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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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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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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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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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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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Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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