A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONWe should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
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Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.
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Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
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Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
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It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.
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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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Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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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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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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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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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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