Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONSuicide 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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Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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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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Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.
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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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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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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.
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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 acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
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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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The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
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Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
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We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
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