An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThat writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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Let 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 avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
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As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.
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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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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility.
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He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.
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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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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
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Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
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The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
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The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
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