Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONWhen you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
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Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
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The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.
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The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
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Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.
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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
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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 poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
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Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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