A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.
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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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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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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
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Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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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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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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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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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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Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.
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