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Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

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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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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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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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An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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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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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.
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He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.
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