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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONWhat would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
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He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
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He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
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Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
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We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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