Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author’s that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
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Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
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To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.
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A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.
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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!
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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 good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
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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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Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
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Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.
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It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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