Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.
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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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Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.
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He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
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Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
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It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.
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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.
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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
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Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
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Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
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