Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONA power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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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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Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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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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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
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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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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.
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Life isn’t like a book. Life isn’t logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
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The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
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The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
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