Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONDoubt is the vestibule of faith.
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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
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Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
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The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
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If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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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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Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
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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 study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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