Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
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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If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.
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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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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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A man’s profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.
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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.
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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
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Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
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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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He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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