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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONTo dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
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Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
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Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
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Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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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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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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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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Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.
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Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
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To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.
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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 studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
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Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse–a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.
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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.
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Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.
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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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Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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