Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONSilence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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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.
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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
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Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
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Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
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The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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Fame 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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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
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Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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