That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONConstant 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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A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
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In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.
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Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.
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Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.
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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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Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.
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The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.
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Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us – never cease to instruct – never cloy.
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Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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