To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
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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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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Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
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The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
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It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.
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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
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The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author’s that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
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