Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThat is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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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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To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
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Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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Life isn’t like a book. Life isn’t logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
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A man’s profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.
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Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
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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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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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Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.
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