Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONPhysical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
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I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.
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The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
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Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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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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If 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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The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society’s most basic values.
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Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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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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The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
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Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave
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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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