For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONSome 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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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
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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 better to meet danger than to wait for it.
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To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.
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Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.
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