Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe 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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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.
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It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that begins by deceiving others, will end by deceiving himself.
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Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
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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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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
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Life isn’t like a book. Life isn’t logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
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Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
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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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He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
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Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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