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The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.

Charles Caleb Colton

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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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Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.
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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
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There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
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It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility.
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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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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.
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Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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