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.
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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He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
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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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A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
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Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.
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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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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
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Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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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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Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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