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.
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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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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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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Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.
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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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There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.
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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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An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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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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The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
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Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
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Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.
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He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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