The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
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Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.
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Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.
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Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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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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Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
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Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
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Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.
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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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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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Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
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