He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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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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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The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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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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Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
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If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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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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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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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.
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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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We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.
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