Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.
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Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
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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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Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
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There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
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It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
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That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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