Some 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.
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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Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
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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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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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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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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
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Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
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Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
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Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.
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That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
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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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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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