In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIt 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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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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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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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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Books, 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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The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.
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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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Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.
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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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There are male as well as female gossips.
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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over.
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Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.
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An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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