Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONA society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.
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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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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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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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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.
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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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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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There is this difference between happiness and wisdom; he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.
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Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.
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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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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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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
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Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.
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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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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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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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