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The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
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Bright Calm Confusion Darkness Greatness Storm Time
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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Afford Man Poor
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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Deep Fools Silence Wisdom
That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.
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Appreciate Beautiful Intimate Substance True
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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Course Greatness Intelligence Man Mindset Vulgar
The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
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Advantage Ourselves Present Time
Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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Pride Right Rule Satisfaction Wrong
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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Affirmation Fake Knowledge Negative
What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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Choice Known Willing Yourself
We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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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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Admire Difficult Fine Writing
Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
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Bear Beggar Refusal
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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Goodness Greatness Life Man
Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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Doubt Faith
Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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Flattery Form High Imitation
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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Crime Severe Victim

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