There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
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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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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What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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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 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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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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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.
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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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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.
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True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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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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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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There is this difference between happiness and wisdom; he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
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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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Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
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Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!
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Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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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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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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