Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
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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Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
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It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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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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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.
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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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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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Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
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Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
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It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.
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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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Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
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