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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONTrue contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us – never cease to instruct – never cloy.
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Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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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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As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.
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Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.
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Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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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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Life isn’t like a book. Life isn’t logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
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The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.
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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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Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
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There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.
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