The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.
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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
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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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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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Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
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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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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
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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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As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
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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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I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.
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If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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