None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIn 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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The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
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Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
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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 are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
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Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.
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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
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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 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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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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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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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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