It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that begins by deceiving others, will end by deceiving himself.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIt is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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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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In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.
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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
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Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
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It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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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.
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Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
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Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
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Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
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Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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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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Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
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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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Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
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He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.
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Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.
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