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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.
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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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Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
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War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.
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It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
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Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
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In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.
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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
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The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
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The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
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