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 COLTONGreat men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
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The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
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The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
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He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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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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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.
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As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
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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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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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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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Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.
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