It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
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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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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Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
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It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
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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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A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
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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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Life isn’t like a book. Life isn’t logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
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A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
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Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
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What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.
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