Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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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Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
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War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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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 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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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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God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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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 rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
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