A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONJustice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
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I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.
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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
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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 more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.
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We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
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The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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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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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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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 is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
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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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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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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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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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Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
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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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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
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Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
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He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.
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To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.
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We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
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An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.
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A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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