For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
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He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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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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God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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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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Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
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Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.
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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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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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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
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Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
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