Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIf a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.
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There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.
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Constant 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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He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.
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It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.
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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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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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A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
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He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
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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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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
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He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
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