Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
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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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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Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that begins by deceiving others, will end by deceiving himself.
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Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
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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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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
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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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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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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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Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.
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