It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
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Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.
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It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that begins by deceiving others, will end by deceiving himself.
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What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
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He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.
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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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Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave
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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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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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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
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