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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThose that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.
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Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.
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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
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Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
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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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If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.
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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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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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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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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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Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
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