Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONFame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave
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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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Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.
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He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society’s most basic values.
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Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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Times 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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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.
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The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over.
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.
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Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
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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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