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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONMystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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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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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
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Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
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Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
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We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
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Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
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