Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
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Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
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Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
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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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In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
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There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!
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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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Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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It 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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Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.
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He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.
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The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author’s that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
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