There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!
CHARLES CALEB COLTONLight, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
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Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
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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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If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
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There 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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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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Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
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It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
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It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.
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Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility.
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A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
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