The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
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A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
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A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.
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If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.
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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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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
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Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
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As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.
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Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility.
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Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.
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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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