Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIgnorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
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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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A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.
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Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.
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To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.
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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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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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That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
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It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility.
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Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
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He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
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Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
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He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.
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A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.
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Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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Physical 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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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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