We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
CHARLES CALEB COLTONImitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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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 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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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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Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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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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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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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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The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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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 is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.
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There is this difference between happiness and wisdom; he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
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The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
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That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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