If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONOur minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
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The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
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To 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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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
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A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.
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We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.
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It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.
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There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.
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