Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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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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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Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over.
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He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
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Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
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Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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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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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 awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author’s that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.
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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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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
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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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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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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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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.
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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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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
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A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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A man’s profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.
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