Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse–a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONPure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
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He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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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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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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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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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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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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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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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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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.
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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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