No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIt is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
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He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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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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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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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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It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.
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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us – never cease to instruct – never cloy.
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Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
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That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
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Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
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