It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONNo 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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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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Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
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Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
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Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
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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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There are male as well as female gossips.
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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.
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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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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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Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
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