It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONLaw and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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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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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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He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
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Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
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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 hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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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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The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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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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A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
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Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
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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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Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.
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A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
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