Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONTimes of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
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There is this difference between happiness and wisdom; he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
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In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.
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Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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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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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
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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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Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
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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 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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He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.
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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
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Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
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If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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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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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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It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.
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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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