It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIt is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society’s most basic values.
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To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
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Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.
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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
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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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That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.
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There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.
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