The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONLet those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.
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The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.
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Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
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Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
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Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.
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I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.
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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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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
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Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.
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To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.
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