Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONA harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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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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For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
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I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
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There are male as well as female gossips.
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If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
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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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To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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