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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONA man’s profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.
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Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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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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A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
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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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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.
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Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
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Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
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God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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