Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
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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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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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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
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Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.
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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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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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Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
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An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.
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That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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