Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIt is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
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Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.
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A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.
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Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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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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Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
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That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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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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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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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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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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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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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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