That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONMost plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.
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Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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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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It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility.
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If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.
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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
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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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An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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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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We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
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It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
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