Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThere 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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Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.
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A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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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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Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
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If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.
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Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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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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To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.
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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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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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The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
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Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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